Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live on a scale to which she had never been accustomed. For months the end of the boom had been in sight. In June 1947, luxury imports were forbidden. But Mexicans still wanted the good things of life. The end might be in sight, but there was no way of stopping the boom mentality until the end had actually come...
With their less flamboyant, more businesslike way of politicking, Canadians would not have and did not want quite the kind of show the U.S. is staging this year. Yet they were going to have their own kind of circus, and in three rings, too (see below...
...result-a platform and a party leader for the next election-the convention will bear little resemblance to U.S. national party meetings. There will be no public gallery, no bands, no dancing girls, no door prizes, no keynote speech, no nominating speeches and, if Chairman Fogo has his way, no demonstrations. Nominations will be opened as soon as the three-day convention starts-by submission in writing to the chairman. Any two delegates in the hall may nominate a candidate...
Halfway through the meeting, a round-faced young man got up to read a resolution on industrial relations. The delegates liked his looks and liked what he said in his wordy, sobersided way. They elected Dark Horse Mackenzie King on the third ballot. That kind of thing might happen again...
...gilded Hollywood, told readers of the New York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing gum, for which no more human maturity of audience is needed than...