Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is an improvement on its forerunners: Dreiser is no longer content to draw a caricature with his fist; he attempts to paint a portrait, and regards his villain with some compassion. Cowperwood is loyal to the wife he does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He never repents his deeds, or sees a need to, but he makes a futile attempt at good works by endowing, in his will, a charity hospital. This escape-hatch from hell is closed, however, when the ill-gained wealth is dissipated by executors, lawyers and heirs...
Such a provision would have political drawbacks. The only real beneficiaries would be fewer than two million-married taxpayers with a taxable income of more than $5,000 a year. And they would have to be content with less tax relief, percentagewise, than in the tax bill passed last July by Congress but vetoed by President Truman...
...that, a two-thirds vote of the Assembly would be required - hardly possible unless some new and worse crisis looms, such as a Communist-fomented general strike. Meanwhile, under the present constitution, there can be no national elections until next May. Last week, Charles de Gaulle seemed content to wait...
Gilding the lily, the athletic directors have placed the boys half-way up and on the sidelines for the Rutgers game, instead of tucking them away somewhere deep in the bowl where the game is but a rumor. The cynics who look for evil motives may try to content themselves with the one hitch of a 25 cent tariff on each boy, but that goes to the government by law, and nobody around Cambridge receives a cent...
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...