Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real victim, Mr. LaGuardia, remains to be seen, but it is clear that he cannot but emerge from the New York campaign as that most inexcusable of offenders in a democracy, the man of mystery, the friend of none and the suspect of all. It is of small moment which game the Secretary has been playing; all the talent is against him, and will be against him through the battle, and he cannot explain himself to the public without losing the prospect of his mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced...
...public tried to be classical and pronounce Oedipus and argue about the merits of Aristophanes--now was it he or Sophocles. But the great masses were too lazy to go to libraries for research; "depression" in one sense was enough. O'Neill had failed to pick the "psychological moment" to present his tragedy, so now we have him in a lighter vein. New York has not been very pleased with the attempt, but Boston should have a chance to judge for itself before the end of the season...
...trick--I shouldn't use the word, for Mr. Behrman is more experienced than the majority of playwrights whose characters fluctuate according to their whims--more accurately, his method has been to give consistent characterizations of non-neurotic individuals, individuals who might be roaming about New York at this moment...
...newspaper are like a thoroughfare where walk thousands upon thousands of sad, merry, desperate, frivolous, austere human beings. . . . Here and there one will pause an instant and say something that touches the heart of even the most habituated builder of that thoroughfare, as when this poor man in the moment of death thought of the 'S. F. Examiner . . . and ... a very dear little lady...
Actually the best way to produce a healthy situation is to release dollars that already have owners who in turn have a multitude of uses ready fort them money the moment they can get them fingers on the cash they have been deprived of since the bank holiday in March