Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because there was no need for it in the golden '20s and no point to it in the depressed '30s, Wall Streeters stopped ringing doorbells. They just sat at their desks, did business over the phone. But last week New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram thought it was time for the Exchange to try to "sell" the market out of its slump. Schram wanted to "interest the public to buy securities regularly as a means of producing income, much as they have learned to purchase life insurance as a means of protection...
...artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point one way, my reason points another...
George Henry Thomas was born on a Virginia plantation, attended West Point more or less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...
...served with distinction throughout the Mexican War, and of his exemplary conduct in the battle of Buena Vista said only, "I was under fire from 6 o.c. until 4." As artillery instructor at West Point, he taught the cadets with the same calm sobriety with which, during his Indian-fighting days, he removed an arrow from his chest...
...When He's Down. At this point the other enemies of promise smell blood and close in. While Mr. Shelleyblake is struggling to write the book that he is in fact incapable of writing, he gets a warm note from "Mr. Vampire," a literary editor: "I was so interested to meet you the other night . . . [I have been] looking for someone to [review] the Nonesuch Boswell, and your name cropped up." Mr. Shelleyblake is flattered, and relieved to lay aside his dreadful novel; and his review is enjoyed by all. Unfortunately, his new novel, when at last it appears...