Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding Sam Wood, producer and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), had no hesitation in using the word Communist and in applying it to some of the cinema's best-known writers: Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson. But Wood was not content merely to pin the label on them. Said...
...Director Wood then aimed a kick at the rear end of the Motion Picture Writers' Guild, saying that it was "controlled by Communists." As for the Screen Directors' Guild, of which he is a member, Wood said that it had a strong pro-Communist bloc, composed of Directors John Cromwell, Frank Tuttle, Edward Dmytryk and Irving Pichel...
...Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, cabin is the base for the group's activities; and club members have already been up there during the past two weekends laying in supplies of wood and preparing the place for the coming season...
...middle of the journey of this our life, I came to myself in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost...
...reason for all this was a familiar one: the chronic freight-car shortage had become critical again. There were not enough cars to haul coal, wood, oil as fast as they could be produced...