Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victories resulting more from errors on the part of their opponents than from any outstanding playing of their own. Yesterday the Colby players dropped their first game of the season, a 9 to 0 shutout administered to them by the University of New Hampshire, a loss that fails to convey any sense of great power in the team
Franklin; Theodore, Though presidential politics was barred from the conference, nevertheless the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York's Democratic Governor, kept shuttling back & forth in its news. It took two telegrams and a long distance telephone call for the Governor to convey to Senator Norris the full measure of his regret at being absent. Said the final message: "I am much disappointed. ... I need not tell you of my real interest in the subjects you will discuss. . . . May I call your attention particularly to the water power policy of this State, to our agricultural program...
Your article, and the appellation "Chaser Michel," conveys the idea that Mr. Michel's work has been only that of a solicitor of cases. This is not correct and it does a gross injustice to a man whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial work. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Michel has never personally solicited a case in his life. While he may be responsible for the conduct of anyone in behalf of his firm, nevertheless to convey the impression that he is a mere solicitor instead...
...rather tedious evening of sitting and waiting--waiting for the end--one gets the impression that the author of the play has a message and that in order to convey it to the world, he has gone out and made a careful compilation of all platitudes about the inherent badness of human nature and the essentially raw deal which life hands out to us. In fact he may even have contributed a few original platitudes. At all events there is a didactic spuriousness about it all which almost defies description and wouldn't in any case be worthy of description...
That such a dramatic idea is difficult to convey to an audience is at once apparent. Playwright Sidney R. Buchman is never able to make his theme articulate. But Actor Paul Muni (Wisenfreund)-"The Man of 1,000 Faces"-pumps life into the character of sturdy brother Saul...