Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exchequer Hugh Dalton: "The great amount of debt we bring out of the war is indeed a strange reward for all we in this island did and suffered." Ernest Bevin frankly compared the U.S. to "a money lender." Raged Conservative Robert Boothby: "This is our economic Munich." Laborite Norman Smith chimed in that the U.S. was treating Britain as a defeated enemy forced to accept the victor's terms...
...would like to see Dr. John Haynes Holmes's reply to Edgar D. Smith, both letters in TIME...
Soon his men were synchronizing cowbells chromatically arranged like a xylophone; a klaxon, a popgun, a saw, a fire-bell, an octave of Flit guns (tuned to the key of E flat), two octaves of tuned doorbells, an auto pump, a car motor, a Smith & Wesson .22 pistol. His ten players-nine men and a girl harpist-are proficient at making every conceivable noise capable of emerging from a human larynx...
Behind these best-sellers trailed other novels of unquestionable sales-merit. In a world of uneasy consciences, the problems of man's fate and faith were almost as marketable as adultery. Notable were Bruce Marshall's The World, the Flesh and Father Smith (in which the wise innocence of a Catholic priest prevails against the world-his parish-and the flesh-the problems of his parishioners); James Hilton's So Well Remembered, a simple Englishman's struggle between good (his principles) and evil (his wife); James Ramsey Ullman's The White Tower, in which...
riverrun, past Smith and Leverett, from swerve of shore to coast of Gold, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation to a galexcellent group of mourners, reJoycing in common upperoom Adamatmosphers, performing last rites to a singleaf of "Finnegan's Wake" tothetuneofatwotoo solid hourangue...