Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like her five previous novels, Monday Night is at its best in creating momentary moods of neurotic tension, in flashes of brilliant writing. Its central character is a comic grotesque called Wilt, a washed-out, oldtime, expatriate newspaperman, middleaged, garrulous, full of stories he never got around to writing. In a promising beginning, Wilt is introduced on a Paris street corner in mysterious talk with a big, naïve pal named Bernie, a medical student just arrived from the Midwest in hopes of meeting his hero, a famed French toxicologist. Wilt, who had met Bernie only a few hours...
...suddenly as the Congressional urge to put the Government in the radio business blossomed last fortnight, so suddenly did it wilt last week. Biggest reason was that FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch, unwilling at this time to go on record for or against, withheld the sunshine of his Interdepartmental Committee report on international broadcasting. With the most authoritative witness out of the picture, the Celler Bill hearings were postponed indefinitely. A similar end was expected by Senator Dennis Chavez to the hearings on his Chavez-McAdoo Bill, which, like the Celler Bill, would authorize the Government to send anti-Fascist...
...first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons of my health-in themselves joyful-which you certainly will understand and make allowances...
...whirlwind, reproves the moody, theatrical Jew in some of the most majestic questions ever posed. Out of many a U. S. radio two Sundays ago issued sounds of a wind machine and the voice of an actor impersonating God: Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? . . . Wilt thou disannul my judgment, Job? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? . . . Hast thou an arm like God, Job? Canst thou thunder with a voice like...
Prayer: ALMIGHTY GOD, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection...