Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple man," says Cash, ". . . rarely has any considerable capacity for the real." If the naked struggle for existence is relaxed even a little, he becomes a romantic and a hedonist. He develops a limitless credulity, and begins to "accept what pleases him and reject what does not." In every plantation white these traits were strongly enhanced by the Negro, a champion pleasure man and dreamer. As for the mass of poor whites-locked off on poor land from the plantation world, indifferent to labor-theirs was "a tragic descent into unreality," a "void of pointless leisure...
Kitty Foyle (R. K. O. Radio). Nothing succeeds with the cinema's limitless female following like a good teary treatment of women's travails. So when Novelist Christopher Morley produced Kitty Foyle last year, he had a certain movie sale on his hands...
Nibbling like beavers at their forest of orders, aircraft makers have had no time to experiment with new techniques. Nor could private capital be expected to back so costly an experiment. Reason: nobody knows how long the limitless defense demand for planes may last. But post-war problems do not immediately concern Defense Commissioner William Knudsen. When he came to Washington (an auto man) he counted out Henry Ford's futuristic offer of "1,000 planes a day," quickly allayed planemakers' fears that he might try to move their industry to Detroit. But last week, having watched...
...whole foreign policy of Germany is governed by a motive of limitless expansion--by propaganda, by a control of world trade, and by armed force. There is a purpose of aggression, a power of aggression, and an evidence of deeds that speak more eloquently than words...