Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inadvisability of putting much faith in the economist's interpretations of the dollar. But it is at least consoltion to him to be assured that others have struggled feebly to enjoy life and yet withstand the cost of living, in past centuries. It must be therefore in a sympathetic frame of mind that Professor Usher will lecture on "The Rise in Prices 1500 to 1700" in Widener U at 12 o'clock today...
...producers of a crop in which there is a surplus, to be spent eking out a "fair price" for producers faced with a loss on that crop. Last week, while the Senate anticipated hot debate on Senator McNary's bill, the House Committee on Agriculture was struggling to frame a similar compromise...
...today usher in his day's respite with listening to a Beethoven quartet--number one of Opus 59 to be exact--played at 10 o'clock this morning in Paine Hall of the Music Building by the Darrell String Quartet. After hearing it one should be in a proper frame of mind for the following festivities...
...been incautiously heralded so often since that it pleases her to ponder a question which few painters would be brave enough to frame: "What do they think about these things when they go home to supper?" The people who stare at her pictures of apples, pears, eggplants, leaves, stalks, high buildings, rivers and tremendous flowers, interest her enormously. She, like George Bellows and unlike almost every other U. S. artist, has never gone abroad and doesn't want to; she paints all day on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, Manhattan; her face is austere and beautiful; she does...
...Ramsay MacDonald, former premier and present Labor leader, expressed some views on the relationship of the New World with the old. Mr. MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby's invitation to Senator Borah to visit Europe...