Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against four fours ... [a practice] which has never been recommended as a cure for heart trouble." Next day the judge called Jesse to the witness stand...
...Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand it) get read. All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same. Arkansas did, by a 60% vote...
...falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...
...death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...
Eternal Vigilance. In Carlisle, England, Chancellor H. H. King stoutly opposed a move to install a furnace in a local church, defended his stand on the grounds that if the temperature were too comfortable, everyone would go to sleep during the sermons...