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Odets does not encase this eternal situation in the snug, tight frame of the well-made Broadway "domestic drama.'' Heaving, racked, volcanic, the play belches the hot subterranean lava of its characters' anger, helplessness, pain. It draws back their skin to leave every nerve exposed. In its best scenes Rocket to the Moon is blisteringly real, its dialogue forks and spits like lightning from a scornful...
Onetime ad writer for a mustard concern and sober-living father of three, Author Hutchinson* wrote The Answering Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...
...hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board went more heaving lines, back & forth skipped the rowboat, and at 6:44 the Queen Mary was snug in her berth, gang planks in position to land her 1,602 passengers. No skipper had ever docked so large a vessel unaided...
...Chamberlain remained snug and cozy at No. 10 Downing Street last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which...
...Ambassador was faced with one of these last week. Prissy delegates to the International Women's Friendship League in Tokyo protested to the police authorities when they learned that 30 lissome Hollywood girl Softball players, Japan-bound for an exhibition series, habitually cavorted about the fields in snug-fitting, thigh-revealing shorts. Police decreed that the girls' shorts must be lengthened to cover the knees...