Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...
...Manchester Guardian faint-praised it as "full of sweet sounds that give delight and do not hurt or exacerbate in the least ... A very moving act of homage." The Daily Express said bluntly that "the piece is not stageworthy. The plot is too insipid. The music ... is too syrup-sweet...
...Childhood nightmares overruled my mind. I was ill in bed, terrorized with the realization that everything in the world was thick. My fingers were sausages. My tongue was a tennis ball. My lips swelled grotesquely on the mouth grip. The air was syrup. The water jelled around me as though I were smothered in aspic. I hung witless on the rope. Standing aside was a smiling, jaunty man, my second self, perfectly self-contained, grinning sardonically at the wretched diver. [He] ordered that I unloose the rope and go on down...
...this, Playwright Finch brings no jot of extenuating talent. His play is as harmless, soporific and old-fashioned as a child's soothing syrup. Its big asset is that grandma is played by that favorite of You Can't Take It With You, Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey, Josephine Hull. But seldom has so winning an actress engaged in so losing a fight...
Across the U.S. last week, air waves, nurseries and barrooms echoed with a song called / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. To a tune that is basically old reliable corn syrup, with occasional chorus and chime effects added, it tells the story of a child who does some Christmas Eve snooping when he (she) should have been asleep. Nothing else in the lyrics is quite up to the title-line. Sample...