Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late as last May, Scribner's Commentator had as its top name-writers Playwright J. P. McEvoy, Crooner Kate Smith, Comedian Fred Allen. But in August it burst forth with Charles Lindbergh on the cover, a flattering story about Lindbergh inside, pieces on the New Deal's international sympathies and "warmongers...
...Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square to No. 3 on the list. But the fall of France has inspired the best tune: The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Not yet a bestseller, this song was well on its way last week. Kate Smith had had exclusive radio rights to it for six weeks. There were half a dozen records of it, of which silky-voiced Hildegarde's (Decca) best captured its nostalgia for the boulevards...
...Failures of Force. Of the fate of German Christians Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, secretary of the World Council of Churches, says, "This is one of the most subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from...
Wally Sullivan and Hal Maron, two more voterane, will pair at the guard posts. The leading substitutes who are likely to see plenty of action are Harry Gogan, Gordon Morse, and Elmer Smith...
...better, rationalization--of social change. To give it reality, it must be projected back on to the plane out of which it was cut: the economic world of the author. In the very choice of the "factors remaining equal" lies social philosophy. Quesnay and eighteenth-century France, Adam Smith and British industrial supremacy, Keynes and stagnation, are inseparably intertwined. Like political science, economic theory cannot be torn out of its historical context without losing substance...