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...policies of irresponsible labor unionism as seen today can only lead directly to ... the rising of the very "fascist system" which union leaders now attack. The country simply cannot continue to be torn up by the roots, every time some small group of citizens wishes to "soak the public...
Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...
...Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama...
...seat in Parliament. His sharp tongue quickly made him enemies. In the wholesale barrage of criticism he inspired, he was charged with everything but cowardice. Belaboring Lloyd George became a Parliamentary habit. During his long career, he was denounced (among other things) for pacifism, for hypocrisy, for devising soak-the-rich budgets, for tactlessness...
...rest of us at the Center dance last week. Thanks to Mrs. Clarke the affair was a complete success with Keith Richards, Jack Trumbauer, and Ralph Rolling the more conspicuous figures on the "Paul Revere." Webb Smith and Charlie Ritzen are leading their art appreciation gang down to soak in some Shakespeare this week...