Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Britain the idea of P.W. fraternization no longer seemed so objectionable. In the House of Commons, Tory Martin Lindsay rose to suggest that some P.W.s should even be encouraged to stay and marry. "The advantages in adding to our labor forces thousands of industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I am one of those people who believe that it is a great misfortune for women to be unable to fulfill their biological function because of a shortage...
...Chinese people, and abandon their policy of seeking political power by force. Whatever reforms they advocate may be brought up in the proposed all-party State Council for discussion, debate and adoption. This is the recognized democratic process all over the world. The National Government has many reforms to suggest also, as it recognizer only too well there is need for reforms in many respects...
...plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always Sticks Twice. The play had been rehearsed under heavy wrappings of secrecy. Almost nobody in the audience was sure what it was about, though some had paid $25 a seat to find out. But some people were already buying seats...
...Return. Why did O'Neill decide to return to Manhattan? Some people whisper about money difficulties, but that seems unlikely. Others suggest that after five years of infirmity, unproductiveness and cramped quarters the thought of having a new play produced might amount to a rebirth...
Should someone have borrowed the maps to cover patches of bare plaster in his or her room, Poole will be glad to suggest a less-strategic wallpaper. The Government Department, which is not ready to start a College-wide investigation, has the idea that some envious professor with an eye to his own requirements might have walked off with the two maps...