Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this day of modern witch-burning when freedom of thought has been exiled from many lands which were once its home, it is the part of Harvard and America to stand for the freedom of the human mind and to carry the torch of truth...
...Deep Mrs. Sykes (by George Kelly; produced by Stanley Gilkey & Barbara Payne) is the first play in nearly a decade by the man who left his imprint on the 1920s with The Torch Bearers, The Show-Off, Craig's Wife. The Deep Mrs. Sykes is not their equal. It is a little too talky, too thin, too pat. But it asserts its theatrical independence at every turn, it makes grown-up assumptions, and the best of it seems written with a rapier rather than...
Kelly's pen was sharp from the first, but as time went on he dipped it into ever darker ink. Manners gave place to morals, nose-tweaking to vivisection. Spoofing the Little-Theater Movement in The Torch Bearers, he harshly satirized a blustering
Foolproof Formula. The speech was one of Churchill's best: a masterly mixture of lofty patriotism and adroit politics. Well brushed, well tailored old metaphors ("We held aloft the flaming torch of free dom when all around the night was black as jet") clothed his sturdy Tory form ("We have endured patiently, almost silently, many provocations from that happily limited class of left-wing politicians to whom party strife is the breath of their nostrils"). By the time he reached his glowing peroration, 43 minutes later, the Tory leader had shown how he proposed to win the general election...
Unknown Toll. Last week, reconnaissance units of the 40th Division advancing on Manila came to Camp O'Donnell. The Japs had moved their troops out the day before, after putting the torch to the buildings. The last of the Filipino prisoners had been moved out a year earlier, and no man knew how many had died. A Filipino colonel put the number...