Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poland's peasantry understood. While the "rich" ones (anyone owning more than 49 acres) quaked, some of the "poor" ones queued up for examinations preliminary to joining the Communists. In a Warsaw suburb three of them flunked. When asked "Who is Poland's greatest enemy?" (the prescribed answer: "American imperialism"), they said: "The Soviet Union...
...festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades and dancing in West Princes Street Gardens, below Edinburgh Castle...
...Ivor Brown thinks there is something to be said for the "odd appetite for knowledge in our times, an appetite which radio [through quiz shows] stimulates and feeds." With relief and some surprise he notes that radio, "instead of flattening out all our accents and idioms, and reducing the rich variety of our national speech . . . has actually popularized diversity." Even "American and Canadian voices seem to have especial powers of coaxing one to listen and to like what one hears...
...later killed in a B-29 crash), kept pace with their problems on & off the field. Under Southworth, the Cards won three consecutive pennants, two World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place to fourth, then to third last year. The delighted Steamshovels tore up Billy's old contract, gave him an even fatter one (his present salary...
...Scars. Old (85), rich Charles Pathé, now in retirement at Monte Carlo, had hatched the bird back in 1897. "I did not invent the cinema," he once said, "but I industrialized it." On money made from selling the first Edison Kinetoscopes (the original peephole movie), he launched into making film, cameras and movies on his own, bought and built theaters, pioneered newsreels and the first amateur movies...