Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allowing $4 a cwt. for shipping, shrinkage and 1 ½? lb. duty, Canadian cattlemen could still have made about $8 more by selling south of the border last week. Growers argued that it wasn't the dollars so much as "a solid U.S. market" for the future that they wanted. The best bet was that the government would give it to them in midsummer. Then, packers predicted, sirloin would go to $1.10 a lb. in Ottawa-or to whatever outrageous figure U.S. buyers are paying at the time...
Tradition & Invention. Any production of Hamlet stands or falls, in the long run, by the quality of its leading actor. Most productions have little to recommend them except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest...
...verges on hollow flamboyance; and he may fall to the floor once too often. But such excesses are rare and disarming; mostly, insofar as he errs, he errs nobly on the side of restraint. He pours out the marvelous liquids of the first soliloquy (0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt) very tenderly and melodiously, but with little of the anguish which lies half-awakened beneath the bitter mildness. To be, or not to be is spoken in a stoical quietude and levelness, but the subtler possibilities are not very clearly realized in those definitive, eroded lines...
...West Point, to Hoyt Jr., a rock-jawed plebe, went a fountain pen and a rock-solid handshake from Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, '23, who has come a long way since then but still looks a little like a plebe with his hair slicked down...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...