Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leiber takes great pains by his asides and gestures to convey that he has but one thought in mind and that is to set himself safely on the throne at all costs. In his wooing of Lady Anne, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, whose blood is scarcely dry on his sword, Gloster presents his suit with all of the cunning of a snake charming its prospective prey. The lady assents, and as she departs Mr. Leiber gives a very emphatic sneer and a disparaging remark on the constancy of women. All through the play he uses...
...Lady Anne did well in an exceedingly difficult part, but most of the others were nothing more than satisfactory. In spite of the exceptional amount of cutting in her part that was necessary to make the play fit into the modern stage time limits, she was able to convey something of an actual character to the part she played. She was won over by Richard not so much by her lack of insight, as by his extreme cleverness. She left the impression that she was a woman in the hands of a clever fiend rather than just a puppet...
...believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels and that the height of conviviality in Hanover is represented by an ice cream soda, should be jolted from smug approval by that word "speed", which while not specific, somehow manages to convey an impression of cocktails and rumble seats...
That all the petitions sent to Washington demanding a positive reduction of naval armament rather than parity at the possible expense of increased armaments are entirely uncalled for is the impression which Secretary of State Stimson apparently wishes to convey in the communication appearing in this morning's CRIMSON...
...translator of mere words can convey to a nation the sentiments and life of another. It requires a native of a country to relate to his countrymen the habits of thought and action of another race. Next in value to expatriate students as translators of the emotional and intellectual constitution of the people of their adopted place of study are delegates such as those who come to Harvard today. The terms of life are experiences and the vehicles of expression are words. Properly to transfer the one through the other the translator must first live the life; then tell...