Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Objection was once made to the high literary content of the questionees' responses. Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their mouths." Jimmy obeyed, not sparing a single dese, dem or dose. Posses of furious questionees stormed the News, and the management frantically ordered Jimmy back to word-painting...
Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Post-War Reconstruction, has "a disconcerting ability to make impassioned speeches of which it is afterwards difficult to remember the content." "He gesticulates a great deal with loose wrists, so that one watches his hands fascinated, certain they will fly off his arms. . . ." Says Authoress Strauss: "Of his claim to near-greatness there is no question. . . . But indulging his passion for speaking at public meetings has debauched his mind...
...spokesman of the General and Municipal Workers Union complained about erratic shortages: "The Management of this country must understand men will not be content to stand idle in the factory with nothing to work on. Material is not being related to labor...
...Brien was often labeled arbitrary, faddish, "plot-shy," and he made no secret of his liking for Chekhovian sketches and vignettes with a narrative content approaching zero. One of the stories in this collection-by Arthur Kober, dialectician laureate of The Bronx-is just a monologue by an offensively smug hash-house proprietor. Many are written in the fashionable (since Hemingway) stark-simple style which, slightly overdone, approximates baby talk. Thus John Fante (A Nun No More): "My mother cried and cried night and day. They couldn't stop her. . . . Finally Grandma Toscana called the priest. . . . Right away...
...corona is bright, but the sun itself outdazzles it except when blacked out by the moon (or by synthetic eclipses created by the device called a coronagraph). Since each of the 92 standard elements, when hot, glows with distinctive spectrum colors, astronomers can analyze the corona's chemical content with spectroscopes during eclipses. They have found in it about two dozen unidentifiable spectrum bands...