Word: spades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Tristan Bernard, 81, large-nosed, spade-bearded "last of the boulevardiers," Parisian novelist and playwright; of a heart ailment; in Paris. Besides 50-odd novels, Bernard wrote more than 40 musicals and plays, most of the latter successful, none profound, all witty. His Exile was probably the shortest play ever staged...
...moviemakers have replaced this love story of tortured velleity with one of more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very...
...Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion. Don Vittorio, the landowners and shopkeepers have all canceled their subscriptions to Rome's Christian Democrat daily, now read only Giannini's neo-Fascist...
...sneer easily at the attempts of men to compromise. In a sense, a degree of healthy cynicism may prove to be the attitude under which controversial countries can best conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed Wilson's dream...
...huge cream & green arena of Milwaukee's auditorium a voice shouted: "I want to call a spade a spade and tell this convention I am a Communist." He was a delegate to the meeting of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. As photographers rushed for their cameras, press-shy President Albert Fitzgerald grabbed for his microphone: "You boys behave. These vultures are about to take pictures...