Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried Laborite Arthur Greenwood: "The honorable Chancellor has balanced all his budgets either by defaulting in his payments to the United States or by robbing somebody's hen roost." To this, the best rejoinder Chancellor Chamberlain could think of was : "When the Labor Party was in power ... it received in reparations [from Germany] ?54,000,000 and paid the United States ?46,500,000. The National Government has received only ?800,000 in reparations, and paid the United States ?32,500,000." This seemed an excellent moment for moon-faced Winston Churchill to rise and call the Commons...
...Munitions makers are today the most sinister influence in the British body politic!" debated prominent Laborite Arthur Greenwood. "It is unfortunate that we have witnessed the passing of a great Prime Minister. Politically Baldwin is dead; spiritually he is damned! Neither the Prime Minister nor his supporters ever really believed in the League of Nations...
Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood, who had written himself off the dole with his book, became a public character. There was national rejoicing when it was announced that his new prosperity would enable him to marry the sweetheart of his threadbare days. This was followed by a general lifting of eyebrows when the marriage failed...
...realist, Walter Greenwood gives his poverty-stricken story a fresh angle, distinguishes it from the monotonous, incredible heroics of most proletarian fiction. Main reason the wretched people in Love on the Dole are believable is that they spend little time trying to adjust the work to themselves. Barely surviving, they have their lives full trying to adjust themselves to the world...
...understatement which packs the play with dramatic dynamite. In the brief time she has been on the stage, no amount of directing could account for the amazing performance of Wendy Killer. An untrained natural, now only 21, she was playing in a Manchester stock company when Collaborators Gow & Greenwood found her. They selected her because she looked good in shorts and had the Lancashire accent necessary for the part of Sally Hardcastle. They got more than they bargained for because it was soon apparent that Wendy Hiller possessed mimic assets rare among seasoned actresses. Like Katharine Cornell...