Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Irak achieved "nationhood" by ceasing to be a British Mandate and entering the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932), London has been anxious lest this key Kingdom on the route to India take the pan-Arab bit in its teeth and kick over the traces. These fears were sharpened by the sudden death of Irak's King Feisal, who had always been able to see things more or less from British angles (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Last week his young son King Ghazi, educated in British boys' schools, was abruptly mastered by pan-Arab chiefs...
...word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles, like Laurence Olivier's Orlando, Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued key. To give the screen version a scope that no stage production can hope to match, he allowed Set Designer Lazare Meersom, whose work U. S. audiences have heretofore seen only in French pictures like Carnival in Flanders, a free hand. Brilliantly matched with the glittering poetry of the play...
...Adman Thornley has been with Ayer for 30 years, is the only remaining partner of the original trust agreement. On the ground that he owns 39 times as many trusteed shares as Messrs. Batten & Jordan combined, he claims the right under the terms of the trust to buy the key stock block from the Fry estate...
...willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping the joker. The cards of little value are the routine stuff of fiction-descriptions, analysis of motives, local color-and the joker is the key that gives meaning to them...
...Health in his own State of Massachusetts to assure himself of the utter wrongness of his charge that "the average city supply [is] five days old." That charge and the insinuation that pasteurized milk "may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow" provide a key to the believability of certain of his other statements...