Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
Bernard Baruch, 77, dropped his roll at a race track, but not on a horse. He somehow managed to fumble away $2,200 in $100-bills. An attendant found the stuff and returned it two days later. The silver-haired statesman gave him a $500 reward, and leaped to the season's most charitable conclusion. "This proves," he announced, "that everyone at the race track is honest...
...London last week, politicians, bankers and bureaucrats, answering an insistent jangle of telephones, turned pale at what they heard. South African gold shares broke wide open on the stock exchange, tumbled more than $300 million. Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse...
...clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...
There was also high praise for 19-year-old Jean Simmons' Ophelia. Wrote the New Statesman's thoughtful William Whitebait: "Ophelia comes out with a clarity I have never before known on the stage or, for that matter, the text . . . Miss Simmons' mad scenes (she acts them very simply; her beauty does the rest) are the most affecting I have known; in fact, this is the first time, in my experience, that the shock of Ophelia gone mad has moved and not embarrassed...