Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bingham heiress, received ?5,000 cash and ?500 yearly to divorce her. With more modern figures, Ellis is less successful. Obviously disliking Proust, obviously repelled by Proust's mysterious masterpiece, he makes a stubborn attempt to evaluate the work and analyze its author, does not seem to grasp their significance in terms of contemporary literature and thought. Yet the note of benign humor that runs through all Ellis' work is also evident in From Rousseau to Proust. Quoting a line from Restif de la Bretonne's licentious memoirs: "How pretty the girls are at Auxerre!" the aged...
Having in six months established a solid reputation as an able, honest, forthright administrator. Charles Richard Gay stepped out last week as a Public Figure. In a speech before a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association he took a bold grasp of a nettled question which few politicians-let alone the head of the biggest and most volatile U. S. stock exchange-would dare to handle on a public rostrum. Said...
...their purchase was equally unstated but, inasmuch as the deal carried an option to buy whatever RKO securities Radio Corp. may still hold, the transaction may result in a complete shift of RKO parentage. If the Atlas-Lehman combination takes up its option, it will have a very firm grasp on orphaned RKO, since before last week's sale Radio Corp. owned 48^ of RKO common and 84% of an $11,600,000 debenture issue...
...financial troubles. Roscoe Pound's day begins at 6:30 a. m., ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut horseshoe desk which is lined with some 300 books. When he wants one he spins around in his swivel chair, gets it at first grasp, buries his nose in it to overcome extreme myopia. When callers come he pushes up his eyeshade, chuckles merrily. The Harvard Lampoon once ran a picture of a pansy whose petals resembled unmistakably the chubby cheeks, droopy mustache and twinkly eyes of the law dean...
...apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly its subject's claim to originality, insight, achievement or potentiality...