Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Here and Now's editorial leader: "Critics [of the Younger Generation] gasp at jitterbugging, forgetting completely those 'immoral' gyrations that 30 years ago were the turkey trot, the grizzly bear and the bunny hug. They wring their hands as they view the diminutive church attendance. . . . One wonders why more of them are not seen in church. . . . The kids of today don't have the real stuff anymore,' they say self-appreciatingly. 'Why, when I was young, do you think . . .?' and so on ad infinitum. When we are looked upon in such manner...
Marta Eggert, though very soprano-ish, makes an appealing heroine, and snuggles her four feeten into Leif Erickson's brawny arms with the proper warmth. Jack Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...
...that the Japanese should be persuaded to open their ports to U. S. trade, old Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry was picked to persuade them. He had spent, as it happened, two long years reading travelers' tales-which convinced him that the whole object of Japanese ceremony was to wring from the opposite party a sense of affectionate inferiority...
Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins again exercised her genius for aggravating U. S. Laborites. Her annual report to Congress so graveled A. F. of L. President William Green that he cried: "We hope an appropriate Congressional Committee will summon the Secretary of Labor . . . and wring from her the truth she has suppressed...