Word: summoners
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Angel Street (by Patrick Hamilton; produced by Shepard Traube in association with Alexander H. Cohen) gave Broadway its first real shudders in almost two years. Author Hamilton, who raised audiences' hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth...
With these names of Russian men who are dead and yet alive, Joseph Stalin reached to the heart of his nation. Familiar names summon understanding from shared remembrance; great names sometimes evoke greatness. Joseph Stalin wanted to remind his people what it is to be a Russian...
...such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire. Can we not summon up in ourselves an idea of a just settlement and an independent will to promote it before this catastrophe overtakes mankind. W. E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy...
...pointed to a major defection in isolationist ranks. There was one further item which old Scripps-Howard readers added to the evidence. No more than an intangible, something in the spirit of Publisher Howard's editorial suggested more spontaneity than any that he had heretofore been able to summon up as an all-out isolationist...
...party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men, to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain...