Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...badly played scene by a talkative bar fly. He comes home drunk and shocks his son into running away. But after remorse sets in, he regains his son and his faith in time for a happy ending: with the family wreathed in a glow of good will as the second baby arrives, and the world's churches filled to overflowing, the Voice is still...
...film's good points are curiously bound up with its faults. By some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...
...Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June...
Wolf's Clothing. In Milwaukee, Arthur M. Sells, voted "Second Biggest Wolf" by his Princeton class ('50), sheepishly revealed that he was already married...