Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this right away because otherwise Tito will succumb to Stalin's blockade, have to fall back into line. We are taking risks--that war may somehow come out of this, or that we may lose face or money--but all policies, especially strong ones, involve some dangers. At any rate the status quo is unsatisfactory and if we do run a little risk in trying to changes it, well, it's a good cause...
Erie Stanley Gardner, who, in the past 16 years, has ground out 62 whodunits (mostly about Lawyer Perry Mason), landed in Manhattan after a visit to England, with an expert's explanation of Britain's low crime rate: "Respect for the law. Over here, it's kind of a game ... If you think you can get away with passing a red light, you will. The British don't look at it that...
...every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...
...hazy film of satire, or at any rate of spoofing, hangs over Yes, M'Lord. But in general Playwright Home seems to have done his best to make everything as inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that it grows tiresome; its scenes are all played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good...
Maybe "Wintergreen" did it. Maybe not. At any rate, the sun came out of the clouds and the varsity took charge of the football on the two-yard line and started to push it downfield. The local partisans forgot all about those 41 points and began to cheer the team to a 14 to 13 victory in what some chose to regard as the second game of a double header...