Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rising our of the question of "censorship" of their bi-weekly newspaper, the "Free Press," three Harvardevens wives futilely shuttled among Yard offices yesterday in search of the official administrative word...
Boyer takes the word "union" out of the newspaper vacuum and puts it in terms of the history, structure and functions and personalities of a labor organization. In vivid concreteness he shows the union organizing, educating, providing social service, operating a hiring hall, running strikes, bargaining collectively, handling grievances and publishing a newspaper. In short, sharp sketches he shows union men and their leaders as human beings...
...Those who don't care about Dickens one way or the other will enjoy it purely as a movie. For Great Expectations is not, in any bad sense, a "classic"; it gives off no unpleasant odor of culture worship. A classic in the living sense of that abused word, it is a beautiful and satisfying movie...
Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma Banky took bows in Hollywood when Body-Builder Terry Hunt complained in print: "It's not a pleasant word, but most . . . actresses . . . are too skinny." Clara and Billie and Vilma, recalled Hunt wistfully, "had well-filled faces with character. You could tell them apart...
...week's end, Judge Roy Archer denied Sweatt's application. He based his decision on state law: "Our constitution provides for separate schools." No one thought that the last word in the case of Herman Marion Sweatt had yet been heard. Marshall plans a "showdown fight," all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court...