Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recalling that he was once a British secret agent, Moscow's Literary Gazette pilloried Author Somerset Maugham as a creature of Wall Street bosses in the "spiritual disarmament of the masses." The paper also took a dim view of Literary Lights T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Edith and Osbert Sitwell as servants of "American cosmopolite expansionism...
John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...
...protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register." Larry Gara drew another jail sentence of 18 months, which...
Father Fajstl was reported to have denied the charge, refusing at the same time to reveal what actually took place at the woman's bedside, on the grounds that this would be breaking the seal of the confessional...
Last week Wall Streeters took a speculative look at the slump that had finally arrived, and decided it was not living up to their gloomy expectations. Result: the market's seventh bullish week in the last eight. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.15 points to 179.07, only a shade below its 1949 high...