Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such legislation would place the demands of one group of citizens above the welfare of the whole nation, which would suffer from the inflationary boost given the country's economy by such action. All too many veterans are attempting to justify their requests for more money by the shallow assertion that now that the country has "had enough" and seems about to return to unfettered laissez-faireism, the grab bag is open, and it is every man for himself. But this is still one nation, and an intelligent, progressive program for the future can be carried through only...
...Fogg Auditorium could not have found more pleasant diversion at any of the local movie palaces, or melded any more ammunition for their November hour exam in the solitude of their ivy-cased studies. Peter Temple 1G, directed and played King Henry, with Mendy Weisgal '45 as Justice Shallow, David Hersey '48 as Sir John Falstaff, Ted Allegretti '47 as Prince Hal, and Mrs. Marty G. B. Mories as Mistress Quickly. While physically anomalous in the role of Falstaff, Hersey performed with a vigor and understanding that garnered as many laughs as a sparsely-filled auditorium could offer. Weisgal displayed...
...Fellow Traveler Jo Davidson's outfit, can, by questionable talent and shallow showmanship, exert its unique leverage on the American electorate, then that electorate must assume full responsibility for the damage inflicted upon the governmental structure by the brand of visionary, leftist young pinks who will enter public office...
...baskets of fan mail, offers from book publishers and four salary boosts in three months. There has been nothing quite like his comments since the dying Ring Lardner wrote in 1933: "Radio, I must admit, is hard to do without when a person is too old to work, too shallow-brained to read much...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...