Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...
...Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...
Artist Miro is still an abstract painter more interested in getting emotions on canvas than creating recognizable designs. But in late years critics, hardened to modernists, have come to realize that he is also a serious, thoughtful painter with a vast grasp of the technique of his craft and an uncanny sense of color. His strange de signs have the quality of holding attention and spurring imagination which, in its essence, is the final aim of surrealism. Wrote conservative Critic Henry McBride last week...
Light is thrown on numerous controversies which the undergraduates of today are and the Ph.D.'s of the 1950's will be wrangling about. The President is pictured as a strong, subtle, versatile genius, "the first American with any practical chance of reaching the Presidency to grasp the essentials of the distributing mechanism of capitalism." The encomiums are cautiously phrased yet the receiver is inclined to wonder if the general impression is not a little misleading. It is easy to agree with Mr. Lindley that Franklin Roosevelt had a liberal political philosophy before he met his brains trust but memories...
...XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...