Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first set of disclosures fell like a bomb on Hollywood. Actor Fredric March was accused of being a Communist; so were Singer Paul Robeson, Writers Dorothy Parker, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ruth McKenney, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo, Millen Brand and Michael Blankfort...
...import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they were wasting their young lives addressing envelopes. They agreed that a dramatic gesture was required to break the world's shocking...
Ewan stayed on the canal that night, the next day and the next night. He was. wrapped in blankets and rubber sheeting. His voice turned hoarse.The police grinned but did not interfere. Crowds grew bigger & bigger. Ruth stayed on the dock, guarding a supply of apples and cigarettes, and watching Ewan's fitful slumbers...
...much for his lesser moments. When he is going well, he is unbeatable. He writes about Judd gray, the co-murderer, with Ruth Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw...
...Army was so impressed with Johnson's ideas on personnel and purchasing that he was offered a majority on the spot. Johnson wasn't interested. He went back to Clarksburg, married Ruth Maxwell, one of the richest, prettiest girls in town, and took up where he had left...