Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deliberated, announced: "I appreciate the council's attempts to act in a fine-spirited manner, but I think it best that their efforts die a quiet death in the pocket of my old blue serge suit. . . . Everyone in Cambridge knows that Mike's heart is in the right place. ..." Retorted Councilman Sullivan, threatening to override the veto : "I'm not kidding about this thing. ... It may step on freedom of speech and the press a little bit, but it should be done...
...most widely heard man in the English-speaking world is essentially simple. "We are in the worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...
...dawntime collision with a parked truck near Berry's Ferry, Va., Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were badly bumped and scratched, he on the arms and forehead, she on the right ear and forehead. Off dashed Mother Eleanor Roosevelt, brought them, not seriously harmed, back to the White House...
...even if Astronomer Slipher is right and the "canals" are real canals, the beings who built them may have become extinct, in the planet's thinning atmosphere and dwindling water supply, millions of years...
Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...