Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...first glance, patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
...Continental is an ancient tub that served in two world wars, changed hands and names five times. Last week, as she headed from Antwerp to New York, her latest owner had high hopes that she would lead the way to a bright new future. Hard-bitten Operator Arnold Bernstein had twice built up a thriving transatlantic shipping business, both times had been swept...
...prewar German shipping tycoon, he had wedged his way into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
...worth, Columbia has spared nothing, not even the horses: the movie has splashy Technicolor, spicy love scenes, a talented cast, lavish sets, a stagecoach robbery, plain & fancy violence. It is only a well-dressed western with gypsy trimmings, but it is entertaining in an oldfashioned, simple-minded way...