Word: scotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take the matter of watches. I paid $96 for mine. It's gotta be cleaned every 18 months and inspected twice a month-it can't ever vary over 30 seconds. Now, when I got to have it inspected in Ft. Scott, the Kansas end of my run, I got to walk ten blocks out of my way. What I want is for the company to pay the $3.50 for the cleaning and give me two hours twice a month for inspection time. See what I mean...
...here's another mighty important matter," boomed Jackson. "Say a freight engineer has to lay over in Ft. Scott 18 hours. For 16 of those hours he doesn't get paid. And for all practical purposes, he's working. He's on call all the time and he can't go out to a movie or even for a beer...
Friends of labor, like Senators Scott Lucas and Joseph Ball, had asked for a new deal in fundamentals. Said Oregon's liberal Senator Wayne Morse, onetime member of the War Labor Board: "We . . . should write into law a distinct policy regarding labor and strikes. The time has come for us to take a stand to settle this question once and for all." The Senate might even be in a mood to restore the Case bill's teeth...
...Defense. Farrell enthusiasts, on the contrary, will stoutly insist that out of Farrell's graceless prose emerges a true and important period picture. The subject: Manhattan of the flamboyant '20s-which the late Scott Fitzgerald saw from the peak of success, and which Chicago-born James T. Farrell sees from the bottom of the barrel...
...work of fiction produced by Edmund Wilson claims serious consideration. "Memoirs of Hecate County" forms a sequel to his "I Thought of Daisy," published in 1929. Just as that volume was a chronicle of Wilson's generation in the twenties, a generation epitomized by his Princeton classmate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, bohemian, leftist, self-consciously intellectual, what Gertrude Stein was to term "a last generation," so "Memoirs of Hecate County" is a continuing study of that generation in the thirties and early forties...