Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded (until police raids) by machine-guns, is still guarded by flood lights which sweep every approach...
International. Diamond meanwhile was not to be located. Only Dalton, Klein, and Mrs. Diamond insisted he was aboard the Baltic. The Baltic's captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason...
Abraham Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice...
...first attracted the students who later became his apostles, he still is intellectual dictator to those about him. Even his critics, who do not admit the value of his psychoanalytic theory, agree that he has had a profound influence in giving a new emphasis, a new method of approach to human problems. In the darkened consulting room of his clinic, he receives a few patients, many of them distinguished doctors from all over the world who come to learn his method of attacking the unconscious by the free association method. He has never taken money from his pupils. What...
...enemy working at reasonably short range cannot be kept out of neighboring territory, cannot be prevented, when once in the air, from doing serious damage. A defending commander can have no hope against the new fast bombers unless he has a long warning of their approach. Faster intercepting machines must be built. More perfect methods of heralding a raider's approach must be devised...