Word: shylocking
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Extremists both North and South make the solution of this problem tougher. In Manhattan sits the unofficial Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc. Taking a they-hired-the-money attitude, it protests partial settlement offers by the debt-laden Republics, thereby revives traditional Latin American resentment against the Shylock of the North. Extremists in the South are hardboiled governments (Mexico's, Bolivia's) which assume that the U. S. has the jitters. Eager to capitalize on Washington's fear that the Fascist axis will undermine the Monroe Doctrine, they would kid the U. S. into canceling the bonds...
...doesn't mean - and how it is acted. Where there are no facts he makes no effort to invent any. His own remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed but is a definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more monumental studies of Shakespeare...
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...