Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casual, talented and loaded with Irish luck, the Crosby career is also notable for making a bum out of Horatio Alger. For in 37 years, Bing Crosby has shed a confusing new light on the problem of how to be a success. He has never studied music or voice or pounded the pavements looking for work; yet jobs kept turning up-each a little better than the last. He always falls uphill. Year after year he just sings, and people pay fortunes to hear him. Over the radio, Bing's voice is worth $7,500 for one hour...
...obsessed with sex, that his version of Ohio life was not a new kind of realism, but romantic. Anderson could have answered what the Russian peasants say: ";We are the dark people, we live in the dark villages." On that lonely darkness he tried all his life to shed light...
...York Society a few bosomy sighs were heaved last week, a few gentlemanly tears shed. The social barriers around Tuxedo Park had fallen...
...been happening to them. So he did. At almost the same moment the notion struck Adolf Hitler to tell his folk why they were pulling Italy's fish out of the Mediterranean. And so he did. The two speeches were noteworthy not only for the light they shed on the probable course of the war, but also for the light they shed on the personalities of Europe's two Rover Boys...
...distort his acts, words and purposes, try incessantly to persuade the world that somehow or other His Holiness is on the totalitarian side against Democracy. Recently, for instance, the Nazi-dominated No. 1 Catholic news-organ of the Czech Protectorate declared: "There is no Catholic in Europe who would shed a tear to see the collapse of democratic political disorder and who further would not sincerely welcome the fall of economic liberalism, which has been denounced by the Pope's leading Catholic ideologists because it misuses the working people in favor of a few capitalistic speculators. Czech Catholics...