Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Douglas might well have gone on to become one of the visionary young dreamers of the New Deal brain trust. But he was no more willing to accept the neatly contrived panaceas of the early New Deal than the heady optimism of the '20s. He still had some thinking to do. And in a book calling for a new socialistic party he had already declared himself a maverick with a sentence that none of his political enemies has ever let him forget: "There is indeed no logical place in American life for the Democratic Party...
Died. George Palmer Putnam, 63, publisher, author and explorer, husband of the late Amelia Earhart (the second of his four wives); of uremic poisoning; in Trona, Calif. Head of two scientific expeditions to the Arctic in the '20s, Putnam was best known as sponsor of Amelia Earhart's 1932 Atlantic solo flight (the first made by a woman), and as publisher of Charles Lindbergh's bestselling autobiography...
...gold-digging Lorelei Lee in the new musical version of Anita Loos's famed bestseller of the '20s, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 153 Ibs.) Carol Channing is ludicrously miscast. Her head, topped by an unruly peroxide burlesque of a flapper's hairdo, seems too small for her generous features. Set insecurely on the top of a columnar neck and broad, sloping shoulders wrapped in the shapeless fashions of two decades ago, it gives her the appearance of an amiable performing seal; and like a seal she seems naively anxious to please...
Once during the '20s an English Communist went to Moscow to ask advice on what seemed to him a difficult tactical matter. Upon being advised to say one thing in public but do another in private, he blurted: "But that would be a lie." The assembled comrades guffawed. Somebody got on the phone and told Stalin, who roared with the rest; in no time at all the laugh was all over Moscow...
...somehow the joke was not quite so funny west of the Russian border. While Western comrades laughed at the scrupulous Briton and his decent human impulse, some of them also felt a little like crying. Many of them had joined the party in the '20s and '30s with the notion that they were making a better, more decent world only to find that the party was committed to indecent, inhuman calculation...