Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This simple skeleton is built into a fine novel by Miss Suckow's rich direct, and maturely sympathetic style. Her prose is at times radiantly beautiful and wise, "He was aware of a sense of change pervading everything, although it wasn't a thing he could touch or locate. He couldn't say how or when it had happened, but the old simple surety seemed to be gone. The church of his fathers was empty. There was something beyond him, some force that he was only blindly aware of working steathily and bringing a right-about-face. His own children...
...average man does not realize that he must pay the tax bill for public works programs," Mr. Washburn said. Senator Walsh not only supports Roosevelt to the fullest extent but Coolidge follows his decisions. It results in a game of 'follow the leader.' Any man who runs in direct opposition to the 'new deal,' is bound to be defeated...
...play, one of Moliere's less well known farces, satirizes the medical profession. Wallace Fowlie, a graduate of the Conservatoire in Paris will direct the play...
Last week W. F. Hall Printing Co., which prints catalogs for Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other direct-by-mail houses, made Hadar Ortman its president. Robust, apple-cheeked, curly-haired, 36, he will head a company which prints more magazines than any other, at its 20-acre Chicago plant...
...opening session will be held at 8 o'clock tonight. Saturday morning will be devoted to four conferences, one of which will be led by George G. Wilson, professor of International Law, and will direct its attention to "The Function of Religion in International Relations...