Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearer and nearer draws the day when a Republican Congress, its gun loaded for big game, will have its first chance in fourteen years to deal with the nation's problems in its own sweet way. Its first target is likely to be organized labor and the U.M.W. in particular. Even in the unlikely possibility that the coal strike is expeditiously settled, there will be the desire to prevent its repetion...
...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose play, The Respectful Prostitute* was attacked in Paris as anti-American, protested with a reasonableness so sweet that it seemed oldfashioned. He just did not understand, said he, what anti-American meant. "One finds [in the U.S.] ways . . . which are excellent," he hummed, "and some which are not so good." (M. Sartre's No Exit was to open on Broadway this week...
From the Kansas City Philharmonic came a cacophony of sweet and sour notes: the too-familiar sweet notes of Brahms and the too-familiar sour notes of an empty cash register. Conductor Karl Krueger had signed up with the Detroit Symphony. Sponsors debated whether to try out a new conductor or cancel the next concert season. In the end, they hired lanky Efrem Kurtz. Since that time, three years ago, they haven't had a moment's regret...
When it was all over, agency men could only weakly mumble that Gimbels is not completely blameless either. Latest sample of Gimbels' "overexcited, overeager, overhappy" copy: "Nothing but sweet-as-Pètit-Suisse dreams could come of time spent in a gown and jacket like this. Princess Pat's rayon sheer gown is diaphanous as wisps of clouds floating over a pale June moon...
...sweet young things and stadium cowboys, this afternoon's glory will rest little with the gridiron maneuvers of Dick Harlow's super-eleven. Tops in the country and the College's best ever, it's the University's Band--puffed to 120-piece size for the Bulldog--which promises to steal the Big Show...