Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that The Hucksters' venom indicates a growing rebellion against the sins of advertisers. It might be what Evan Evans would call (tossing his hat out of the window, to illustrate) "a straw in the wind...
Most race track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...
...Federal Reserve banks on their short-term Government securities at ½ of 1%, use the cash to buy long-term Government bonds. This was highly profitable to the banks. But it kept pumping more money into the economy, and helped inflation. Dropping the preferential rate was a significant straw that showed how the financial wind is changing...
...hills under the leadership of a man whom all Galicia calls "The Colonel"; he is said to be a former German SS officer. As Poles, evicted from land in the north taken over by Russia, came into Galicia, the Ukrainian bands raided villages, tossing flaming brands on straw-thatched roofs. The Ukrainians aped the nations by demanding impossible reparations; from little Bukowsko they demanded one million zlotys. When the 3,000 villagers raised only 300,000 zlotys, the raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said...