Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon assuming the defense brief, at the request of Irving B. Parkhurst, business manager of the University, and the accused's father, Newton barred Parkhurst from any communication with the newspapers, announcing that what his client had to say would be told only to his jury...
Professor Cox pointed out that collective bargaining has had only a brief trial so far. As both sides gain greater experience in the techniques of bargaining, and as the "fire brands" who were driven to the fore by the era of labor turmoil, would give way to more responsible leaders, industrial conflicts would be resolved more easily, he predicted...
From an undisclosed address in the U.S., where he was hiding with his wife and two children, Alexeev last week issued a brief statement: "All my life I have . . . worked for the Russian people. . . . But it has become clear to me that my work, like that of the whole Russian people, is beneficial to the Soviet regime and not to themselves. No nation is more exploited or rather enslaved. . . . Millions of guiltless men . . . have been put into concentration camps. . . . Actually, the entire Soviet Union is a concentration camp. . . . Even men belonging to the closest entourage of the dictator...
...ever-cautious BBC did not want to make an issue of it. Last week, in a move to appease parents and children alike, it offered a compromise: 1) Dick's adventures would continue to be broadcast nightly; 2) on Saturday mornings a brief resume of Dick's week would be aired for youngsters barred from listening on school nights. To many a parent it seemed that Dick had won again...
...York Film Crities named Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary phoniness, a candied insincerity. "The Best Years of Our Lives...