Word: solider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after...
...crimes with a headline catchphrase; two of his trademarks- on the "Black Dahlia" murder and the "White Flame" murder-were promptly picked up by other papers. But "if you give the readers something sensational on one side of the page," Campbell says, "you ought to give them something solid on the other." His solid matter includes such stories as Arizona's side of the current water squabble with California...
Gayden naturally makes a dignified pass at the girl, while his mother nods approvingly; but the innocent young thing is rescued by the intervention of Gayden's uncle, a solid-citizen doctor. He convinces the mother (through some dubious elementary psychology) that her son is an "incurable psychopath;" that she should (1) go away, (2) send the son to an institution, (3) kill the boy. Mother relays all this to her son, who jilts the girl, plays up to his beloved mom, and leaves everything up to Bainter, who has no chance to get anything done before the curtain falls...
Behind this singing commercial perpetrated by Robert Hall Clothes, Inc., lies the solid substance of a merchandising phenomenon which has made other U.S. retailers green-eyed with envy. In eight years, Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. has mushroomed from a single store in an old loft in Waterbury, Conn, to a chain of 75. The stores have no fancy fronts or Hollywood interiors. But they do have men's suits & coats from $19.95 to $38.95 and women's dresses from $2.95 to $10.95. Their low overhead is a fact: they are in the cheapest possible quarters. By slashing markup...
Moon has the essential gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...