Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosalind Russell was and intended to remain for at least three months a virgin bride--her idea being to test some notions about marriage which she got from divorce figures. Getting his ideas from some figuring of his own. Melyyn Douglas planned to break down her stand up strike. The ticklish situation gets further complicated when an over-potent South American banker, the father of half his country, makes a loan dependent on Rosalind's pregnancy. Thus doubly inspired. Douglas adds to the lustre of his boudoir savoirefaire by a superb comedy performance which succeeds in making love find...
...Farley rushed in to speak for Alfange. President Roosevelt sent him a message of support. Wendell Willkie speaking in a measured voice that made listeners believe he was at last taking speaking lessons, stumped for Joe Baldwin. So did Tom Dewey and Fiorello LaGuardia. The election was a significant test of issues and men that reached far beyond Manhattan. For Republicans it was a test of Willkie's foreign policy, of his ability as a vote-getter for somebody else. For Democrats it was a test of whether or not voters would continue giving unqualified support to New Deal...
...part of the Navy, they get their small arms from the War Department, and wartime supply problems would be simplified if both services used the same rifle. Last winter the Marine Corps decided to have the rifle matter out once and for all. A board was appointed to test the bolt-action Springfield and three semi-automatic rifles (Garand, Winchester, Johnson). The board included such acknowledged experts as Lieut. Colonel William W. Ashurst, a crack rifleman, and Lieut. Colonel Merritt A. Edson, who had earned Marine Corps fame in Nicaragua, hunting down Sandinistas. The Winchester, barely out of the laboratory...
There were many fine and noble words said about our functions as moral social animals, and there were denunciations of those who would abdicate these functions. But in terms of the harsh test of "where do we go from here?", the meeting offered very few and very small potatoes to partisans of peace and progressivism. Apparently we are heading for war, an American imperialism cloaked in Luceful euphemisms, and a career of international political and economic frustration. This happy state will persist until the distant day when everyone becomes tired of it all. Which is not a very pretty...
Because he keeps his finger pointed to this decisive depth, Logan Pearsall Smith's little book may well point the way to a new appreciation of Milton. The test of the greatness of nations, as of individuals, is the strength they discover in themselves only in their moments of great peril. The test of the richness of literatures is to have recorded in their pasts forgotten voices that give powerful expression to new needs. Milton is such a voice, as Wordsworth discovered during the Napoleonic crisis: "Milton! thou should' st be living at this hour: England hath need...