Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music stand will have six lights: a white one for the first beat in a measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...
Composed almost entirely of double entendres, the sadly cruel little narratives in Without Music all convey an attitude of fatigued scorn, like that of the Parisians in "Mr. Jones's Night Off" who "didn't even bother to look up when he ranted at them...
...take the references in the statement to excessive tariffs, import quotas, exchange, etc. That 'etc.' is a very useful word. It is used when a person has exhausted his knowledge and information, and it is intended to convey the impression that those who use it know a great deal more-if only they chose to tell...
...Liberian Government cannot disregard this snub which it regards as an insult. It cannot find it possible to continue to afford Minister Mitchell the courtesy, official or unofficial, which he hitherto has enjoyed. Will the French Government convey this message to Washington...
...establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their parts and the picture was well directed by Archie Mayo. It manages to convey a sense of a locale, to dramatize successfully the popular conception of speakeasies as venal institutions which are sleek, disorderly and exciting...