Word: rathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union; at 32 (in 1902), he led the strike which won an eight-hour day in the coal fields. Soft-coal miners voted him out of office in 1908, eventually put John Llewellyn Lewis in John Mitchell's place. But since John Mitchell died in 1919, he rather than John Lewis has been the sainted hero of Pennsylvania miners...
...Roehm; another man, at a table apart from them, moody, alone. Eckart speaks: "We must have a fellow at the head who won't wince at the rattle of a machine gun. The rabble must be given a good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call...
...Birth of Venus, Mantegna's St. George, Raphael's Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...
Anti-fascist in a typically Shavian way, Geneva makes fools rather than villains of the dictators. For that matter, it pretty well makes fools of everybody in the play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long, says far too little. More of his ideas are old than new, more of his jokes forced than funny. But what Dr. Johnson said of women preaching is also true of octogenarian play writing: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done...
Concerned with the "average" drinker rather than dipsomaniacs (whose drinking is effect rather than cause), Authors Smith & Helwig, no apologists for drunks, know how to say when. They warn, for example, against alcohol for colds and snake bites, point out that many a death technically attributed to accidents, suicide, homicide, bullets and knives should properly be classed as due to booze. They could, but do not, point out that the world's outstanding teetotalers today are Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini...