Word: skid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window. By the time the quartet reached Watertown High School, 700 youngsters, who had stayed after school to hear them, had begun to fidget. Said a 14-year-old to a friend: "Are you gonna stay for this...
...impressive set of spare tools. Joyce himself has scarcely greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...
...acquired a new name, Stage. About that time John Hanrahan, one of the early backers of The New Yorker, took over management of Stage. Up went circulation until it hit 55,000, up went Stage's price to 35?. Then Manhattan box-office receipts began to skid, and down went Stage with them. In June 1939, Stage dropped its curtain for the summer, did not reopen...
...feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin's Mr. Littlejohn (Harper; $2.50) is a simple-minded capitalist who drifts from Manhattan to California in search of Truth. Like Curly Martin's his simpleness...
...shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers to shift jobs was promulgated. In Rome, Mussolini amiably upped the Italian 40-hour week...