Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things were going. In tones of ruthless triumph he thundered: "We must not only win, but win by so big a margin that it will be a long time before the opposition again insults the American people by nominating for the Presidency a representative of all those forces bent on destroying the gains for the ordinary citizen that have been made under our great Chief Executive...
...scene. But the charm of the play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...
...Speaker of the House since 1936 has been William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama.* His way of rule was not the harsh tsarism of Joe Cannon (1903-11), the rough-&-tumble domination of Nick Longworth (1925-31). Partly from natural bent, partly of necessity, he used the gentler arts of persuasion, parliamentary device, friendship. His pre-New Deal predecessors had special patronage to dispense, and patronage was power. Franklin Roosevelt took away most of the Speaker's patronage, leaving William Bankhead with no club to hold, no favors to give...
...large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
Most clucked-over exhibit, which went a long way toward explaining why Thomas Benton's bent-figured painting looks the way it does, was a small model in plastilene and hairpins, from which he painted his oily-looking scene of sailors refusing to board ship. Asked about it, Painter Benton said it was nothing new, that he had been painting all his pictures from plastilene casts for the past 21 years, that he learned the trick from Leonardo da Vinci...