Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency was discovered last Friday when the Massachusetts blood bank, which usually gives blood free to whoever needs if, announced that it was refusing requests because of a low supply...
MacArthur last week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
...National Retail Dry Goods Association, instead of blaming the retailer who blabbed, last week gave Goodall a tongue-lashing: "A black eye for . . . fair-trade . . . A policy error of the first magnitude . . ." Goodall, said an association spokesman, ought to rebate the profits every retailer lost on the premature sales. Whoever was right, the shopper was getting the benefits; last week in Manhattan Gimbels offered men's tropical rayons...
...beside herself with excitement. In a corner her "contact" with the other side raised a hubbub in the loudspeaker through which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which had chosen to wear...
...surprise after his previous work. The fault may be the director's, (or my own, since it is a matter of interpretation rather than ability) but I cannot imagine Prospero as the dry, weary, manipulator that Mr. David makes him. Why shouldn't God, or Shakespeare, or whoever Prospero is, have as much fun as anybody? Since he is responsible for all the goings-on which produce such gaiety, why should he not be amused? Even Buddha smiles. Mr. David's magic-man is stern and inhuman, and for me, unacceptable. His performance is polished, however, and admirably consistent...