Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor girl wants rich boy," the only difference between this movie and its ancestors being in the quantity of "poor girl and the numbers of swooning suckers. Instead of the usual single love interest, "Bachelor's Daughters" travels on a quadruple con game that grinds to a sleepy halt after the first ten minutes. Not even the superb artistry of Adolph Menjou, cast as a floor walker bulldozed into playing father to the feminine fortune hunters, can dispel the disappointed and belligerent hush that soon blankets the audience...
What the Luftwaffe and the submarines had failed to do, the coal shortage did this week. A large part of British industry shut down and the economic life of the country seemed to be jolting to a halt...
Constitutional reform has been effectively brought to a halt for an indeterminate period by the refusal of over half the students in the College to vote during the past two-day plebiscite, final returns showed late last night...
...assembly, a book was handed to each of them. The book: the New Testament, plus the Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs. But last week, after the Gideon Bible Society had given away more than 2,500 copies, the Davenport Board of Education called a halt. Rabbi Abram Vossen Goodman of Davenport's Temple Emanuel had protested. Wrote...
...economics (he was China's Foreign Minister six times and has been its ambassador to most of the major capitals of the western world). A staunch champion of world organization, Dr. Koo was China's man at the League of Nations, the pleader for its action to halt Japanese aggression. At San Francisco he was the first to sign the U.N. Charter (he used a brush to write the Chinese characters of his name: Ku Wei-chun). Yale-trained Dr. Koo is the man TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce will introduce in opening discussion...