Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite fit in with the established bi-party system. In its brief career it has shown its willingness to be independent, which will perhaps appear to the routine-minded as a willingness to be inconsistent. Mr. George Haskins in a very able introductory editorial does make an effort to knit together the "Critic's" past and its present, even to the point of not altogether repudiating last year's famous questionnaire; but on the whole this number of the "Critic" strikes out for itself unfettered by tradition...
...finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill for a $5,000,000,000 bond issue to pay for a public works program. Following its defeat he continued...
...offerings-a rambling Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget the American dollar has been...
Raymond Vail Ingersoll, Borough President of Brooklyn, who has acted as an arbitrator in labor disputes for the cloak & suit and the knit-goods industries, who served as chairman of New York's minimum wage board when Frances Perkins was New York's Commissioner of Labor...
...difference. They are always on the lookout to sell it again. Da, da [yes, yes], Persia is fundamentally sound!" It was this fundamental of Persian policy which made oil such a pleasing subject of converse last week at Ankara. The stronger the two nations become, the more firmly they knit bonds of Moslem unity across the Near and Middle East, the stronger will be Shah Riza's hand the next time he feels like tearing up an oil contract. Dictator Kemal for his part was anxious to talk Persian oil for the Turkish fleet. He was said in Ankara...