Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest single batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked together for years in closest conservative harmony...
...secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that the shy and, for their children, understandably frightened Lindberghs desire. But when the English Channel tide is out, the Lindberghs may walk over almost dry rock to St. Gildas...
Roosevelt a liberal? Pfuey! Not even appraised by the flimsy connotations which still cling to the word is he one. He is a rock-ribbed conservative when the reference is to his own, to what he has struggled to get hold of; and so is every other man. So is John L. Lewis, so is Browder. Each and every one of them has on occasion clawed and bitten and beat the stairs, yelling foul, when thoughtless "liberals" have sought to divide up their powers, perquisites and glories. If there is any meaning left in the word "liberal," 1938 style...
...Mercury Theatre, which first made headlines with Julius Caesar, the season's most exciting stunt, and thereafter stayed continuously on the front page with The Cradle Will Rock, the season's most original form of entertainment; The Shoemakers' Holiday, the season's most rollicking revival; Heartbreak House, the season's most difficult play to revive. Synonymous with the Mercury Theatre was Actor-Director Orson Welles...
...biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...