Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play's title seems less like a symbol of hope than the name of a newspaper...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
Light voting, even in the primaries, besides showing general political apathy, grants self-interested, organized political machines the upper hand. Congressional and State leaders should be considered with more, rather than less, discrimination in war time. At a time when side-show entertainment and baby kissing should fade into the background as a criterion of administrative excellence, other parts of the country have shown that they, too, are not awake. Hamilton Fish and "Pass the biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniels have passed the primaries in their States and seem certain of reelection...
Iran is ancient Persia, at the upper entrance to the bridge. It is also, at this interim stage, the one field where Russian and British armies are in full collaboration. The British and Russians occupied Iran last year, deposed its fanatically independent Shah, set up a pro-Anglo-Russian rule, restored the name Persia. U.S. military men are also in Persia, but they are not yet an army. They are engineers, airmen, quartermasters, building roads and ports, forwarding military supplies to Russia over its Caspian routes. Last week the appearance at Teheran of a new U.S. figure-Colonel H. Norman...
...defenses were not enough. Last week the R.A.F. kept at the Ruhr, hit Saarbrüken (pop. 131,000) with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...