Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville, Ky. district, had the usual question put to him by Negro Bishop Robert Elijah Jones. But Mr. Green did not return the usual answer: he allowed that he smoked. Bishop Jones thereupon barred him from the conference. Said the Bishop: "If a man cannot free himself of the spell of some little inanimate object like a cigaret, how could he expect to resist a real temptation...
Lady in Waiting (by Margery Sharp; produced by Brock Pemberton) took Comedienne Gladys George back to Broadway after a longish spell in Hollywood. She found a perfect part for herself, but unfortunately not much of a play. Dramatized by Margery Sharp from her own novel, The Nutmeg Tree, Lady in Waiting is like a party that starts off gaily, then turns into something where the cocktails weren't mixed right and the guests won't mix at all-leaving nothing but the charm and high spirits of the hostess to save...
...foreigners who have met him have failed to fall under the spell of Göring's gusty charm. In that he has served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts...
...history and throwing off such names as Proudhon, Bakunin, Sorel, Kropotkin, like a shower of sparks, Chamberlain contrasts the lively diversity of pre-war political theory with the postwar hypnosis of Marxism. He thinks most liberal thinking since 1933 has been "pretty silly" because merely a reaction from that spell. As for effective liberal organizations, the Democratic Party has been the best of a bad lot: "a loose federation of southern cotton snobs, western dirt farmers (the real heirs of Jefferson) and the machines of Jersey City's Frank Hague, Chicago's Pat Nash and Ed Kelly...
...some 16,000,000 U. S. citizens, cribbage is still just the right mental exercise for a long winter evening. Every year more & more cribbage boards come down from U. S. attics, more & more families fall under its spell. Long associated with fire stations, country stores and farmers' kitchens, cribbage has lately crawled into business offices and church vestries. Last year a National Cribbage Association was organized, consolidating the dozens of leagues (mostly in the Midwest) that have sprung up, like bowling leagues, to advertise and fraternize business firms and clubs...