Word: adapts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blum's family were rich silk merchants. In a youthful volume, Du Mariage, he urged the Government to recognize that "man is polygamous" and adapt French law more fully to this circumstance. After penning sentimental poems, then literary and artistic criticism, and becoming some-what preciously overeducated, Léon Blum saw these things were getting him nowhere, became a lawyer and began regularly attending Europe's annual conferences of the Second (Socialist) International. Among seedy and impoverished Socialist delegates the brilliant and wealthy young French Jew began to group around himself in something like intellectual hero-worship...
...deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian of silent pictures, almost as rich and famed as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd reacted differently when talkies arrived. While Chaplin, with the egoism permissible to genius, defied the new medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts of the star, placed part of the burden of getting laughs on the other members...
...Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only question is about the facts she does not present...
...Chancellor Chamberlain took the stand that he must be left as free to extemporize and monkey with the pound as President Roosevelt is to monkey with the dollar. "If this country were to go back to the gold standard, it would mean we were no longer free to adapt our policy," Mr. Chamberlain suavely told the Mansion House banqueters. Earlier in the day, before the Lord Mayor's wines had mellowed his mood, the Chancellor had said harshly what he really meant, "even the most tentative approach to stabilization is quite unthinkable...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular...