Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another flock of Governor Gene Talmadge's fouls came home to roost last week. Ten Georgia colleges, including Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia, were struck from the accredited list of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Reason: Talmadge's "unprecedented and unjustifiable political interference" in ousting top educators in last year's flimsy trials before a stooge board of regents. Gene Talmadge charged that the educators fostered racial coeducation...
...copies were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra help, they still could not deliver all the thousands of Hamsun volumes winging home to roost. Grim-faced citizens volunteered to help deliver them: they carted the books to his farm and dumped them at Hamsun's door. Last week, at an auction in Oslo, a 20-volume first edition of Hamsun's collected works came up for bidding. A blunt silence fell. When...
...when Britain entered another state of war against Germany, Dr. Quo Taichi, Chinese Ambassador to London, took a late afternoon stroll in his garden. He looked up into the dull grey skies. "Soon," said he, "the air is going to be black with pigeons coming home to roost." Last week in Chungking, Dr. Quo, now chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme National Defense Council, looked again into the future. Not all the pigeons of past errors had yet come home. But there had been enough to convince Dr. Quo of one thing: without sincere cooperation among...
...Weingartner was the last of a generation of European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center...
Much better liked than Lolly Parsons, when she started Hedda had to pit friendships and wits against the powerful inertia of Lolly's 20-year reign on Hollywood's gossip roost. Choice studio stories went first, automatically, to Lolly; actors phoned her first and eloped afterwards lest she sideswipe them ever after. In addition to her column, Hedda's schedule now includes three CBS broadcasts weekly for Sunkist Oranges over 42 stations (none in Los Angeles, which eats second-grade oranges), occasional magazine pieces, six movie shorts a year, some bit parts (latest: Reap the Wild Wind...