Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pattern. To fight the Star, McCullagh promised to get the Telegram out of its old rut of playing to Toronto's arch-Tories, Imperialists and anti-Catholic Orange order. Said he: "The Globe & Mail will be the pattern, particularly in such things as ... racial and religious prejudice...
...counter the circulation of the flamboyant Star, Publisher McCullagh would need a big pattern. In twelve years as publisher of the Globe & Mail, he had added only 21,697 to the circulation he started with. In the same period, the highflying Star had caught 121,059 new subscribers; even the slow-poking Telegram had gained 42,290. The figures did not faze bellicose George. Said he: "The smart talk will soon be about the waning Star...
Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
...dank hair at his constituents. Some three-syllable words like "constructive" and "progressive" even slipped into his speech. Some Georgians wondered hopefully if Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill's prophecy of last September might not be true: "What appears to be the greatest triumph of the old pattern in the South is actually its death struggle...
...line with the motif of the play--"Congreve, modern style"--the couples are forming the 18th century gavotte pattern which immediately turns into a hash-up of the Charleston, shag genre. The music for the gavotte ties in with the musical scheme of the play, changing from the traditional patterns to 20th century harmonies and dissonance...