Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same car were political advisers: Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
Cabin in the Sky (book by Lynn Root, lyrics by John Latouche, music by Vernon Duke, produced by Albert Lewis & Vinton Freedley). Something of the comic charm of The Green Pastures pervades this new musical fable conceived by whites for an all-Negro cast. In it the robustly endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view...
Coastal Colleges in both the West and the East have responded with considerable enthusiasm, while in the middle West and the South strong isolationism have generally thwarthed the committee's efforts. Nonetheless, in almost all universities contacted some form of defense organization favoring "full aid" has taken root...
...opposite scale pan by Adolf Hitler, the weight of the enemy might become irresistible. Sir Archibald's chances of holding out in the Southern Theatre would then be slenderer than Winston Churchill's of holding out on the little island where the vines of empire have their root...
...things he did & said, the things that happened, were fantastically different from anything in U. S. political memory. The professionals-politicos, newshawks, photographers-had only gradually come to understand that, since Mr. Willkie was no politician, his campaign, in any ordinary sense, would be unpolitical. This was the root cause of the Willkie failures and the Willkie triumphs. He did everything politically wrong on a magnificent scale; when he was right he was terrific...