Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing people jump out of the water onto a diving board or running backwards at full throttle wears off-and that's pretty soon. But the film at the Brattle uses visual foolery in the same intelligent way that a good farce uses its rudimentary pot: as a string for its gems of humor. Spice of Life is a series of sketches examining a variety of pests and bores. Logically unconnected, except by the fact that the poorest of them are quite amusing, these little episodes are narrated and acted in by Noel-Noel. Since he also wrote the film...
...lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared to the ballooning notions of world reorganization cherished in Washington; Stalin fought for one river boundary of Poland against another with the myopic pertinacity of a 17th century diplomat arguing over a second-string fortress. But of these small, ignoble chunks of reality was the actual postwar world built. _ Nor did Roosevelt at Yalta act and talk like a man who wholly believed in the future concert of the Big Three. He and Churchill did not talk to Stalin in their natural voices; they...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...
...attic of Busch-Reisinger Museum the University hides one of its poorest relations-the department of public speaking. With a shoe-string budget and but one permanent staff member, the speech department is on a starvation diet which seems encouraged, if not planned, by the University...
Nearly every industry, of course, can claim some wartime usefulness, no matter how tenuous the thread connecting it with military production. After the President had approved the demands of American watch-makers for increased tariffs, last year, even fertilizer and gut-string factories filed clever rationalizations for protection...