Word: shylock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before 1935, when he began to soft-pedal World Revolution, J. Stalin was stingy about dispensing "Moscow gold" in the U. S. and Britain. Since 1935 many Reds have found him a Shylock...
...season Manhattan run. a meandering road tour. Last week in Chicago, Actress Hayes & company joined with a few Tovarich troupers for a busman's holiday. Their respite: a one-matinee performance of The Merchant of Venice, with Actress Hayes a pint-sized Portia, Abraham Sofaer her Disraeli, as Shylock. Explanation: 1) Actress Hayes had always wanted to play Shakespeare; 2) the company had been playing Victoria so long they were fit to be tied. So good a time was had by all that four more such escapades were immediately scheduled in Chicago...
...understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned into a theatre where a scene from the Merchant of Venice would be re-enacted with Uncle Sam playing the role of Shylock." Carter Glass stamped onto the floor and delivered a philippic upon "economic blunders, if not economic crimes, perpetrated by Congress in the name of starving people who never starved and freezing people who never froze." Senator Borah chimed in with a warning that recent Supreme Court decisions give Congress virtually unlimited...
Over at the Exchequer, Chancellor Chamberlain, as sympathetic civil servants readily explain, has been unable for some years to receive "distinguished Americans" because he is a plain, blunt Birminghamer who would have to tell the Yankees to their faces what he thinks of debt-minded "Uncle Shylock" (see col. 2). With all this in mind, the Prime Minister and U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham were guests at a House of Commons dinner tendered them last week by a group of M. P.'s pledged "to make contacts with Americans interested in affairs and visiting this country...
Merchant of Venice: ". . .The character of Shylock fascinates critics and has lured them into endless mazes of debate. One thing is clear, however: "The Merchant of Venice" is no anti-Semitic document; Shakespeare was not attacking the Jewish people when he gave Shylock the villain's role. If so, he was attaching the Moors in "Titus Andronicus", the Spaniards in "Much Ado", the Italians in "Cymbeline", the Viennese in "Measure for Measure", the Danes in "Hamlet", the Britons in "King Lear", the Scots in "Macbeth", and the English in "Richard the Third...