Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gain. But the Senate was looking for no intramural brawl. By a vote of 48 to 36 it accepted the McCarthy substitute, voted down the T-E-W bill by voice vote. Next day, while the House hurried the Senate housing bill to the White House, the Senate rejected, 53 to 33, a Democratic amendment including all of the President's anti-inflation requests. Then, with hardly a change, it whipped through the House bill to check inflation by reinstituting consumer credit controls and tightening the cash reserve requirements of Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS...
...From the Memphis Blues (originally called Mr. Crump), written by Blues Writer W. C. Handy in 1909 to popularize Mayoralty Candidate Edward Hull Crump...
WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME GERTRUDE STEIN IN PERSON (247 pp.)-W. G. Rogers-Rinehart...
...lying to bring about the plebe's expulsion. As the story unravels in flashbacks, things look pretty black for the hero. Before he came to West Point he fought in World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed). But by the time the picture ends it is clear that Ladd never funked for an instant, handed out no more bullying at West Point than he took, never tells lies, and is in every way worthy...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...