Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Until we find a more democratic method for gaining information on the extremist," Hall continues, "I feel it is necessary to resort to this kind of investigation...
...sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure it. Hell, run by an urbane Devil who is as eager to please as a resort-hotel proprietor, is itself a kind of resort, full of animal enjoyments for no longer flesh-bound escapists...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
...cries of protest. The sharpest words fired at Baptist Harry Truman came from Dr. J. M. Dawson, executive secretary of the Baptist Public Affairs Committee. "It is perhaps a frantic bid for holding machine-ridden big cities in the approaching hot Presidential race," he said. "It is a deplorable resort to expediency,, which utterly disregards our historical constitutional American system of separation of church and state." Truman's pastor, the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden, said in a sermon (which the President did not hear) that he had done "all that it was possible for anyone to do" to dissuade
Berry Fleming usually succeeds in telling a good Southern story in a moderate Southern accent without resort to miscegenation, lynching, rape or general degeneracy to obtain his effects. In The Fortune Tellers, he has put the race issue into a perspective of human rather than political terms that is probably more accurate than most current Southern writers would have you believe. No Homer, he has, nevertheless, caught the epic essence of man against nature-nature in this case being not only a violent river, but a violent heart...