Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual disturbance is only the prelude to the pleasant motif. It is always comforting to feel that the senator from California is in a receptive mood as the presidential year rolls round. There comes therewith that sense of healthy normalcy which used to be felt in those days when the candidacy of Mr. Bryan was a hardy perennial...
...generally speaking) are not in need of any spoiling. The lyrics of the play, in French, are understood by few, and are in addition not half so lascivious or persuasive as the text of the average A. H. Woods farce. The operatic pantomime, when well done, evokes a scholarly mood and more estheticism than erotic thrills. The scene of the head is moderately horrible after the fashion of the traditional Grand Guignol, but is certainly not of a sort to lead bashful youth astray. Mary Garden's stilted dance might be witnessed by the frailest virtue without danger...
Senator Copeland, the physician who recenty arrived in national politics from the State of New York, is preparing a resolution requesting President Coolidge to call an international economic conference. The Administration wants no conference while France is in her present mood. But Democrats believe that the farmers are eager for a conference that will stabilize European finance. A union of Democrats and the Farm Bloc on this proposal might easily embarrass the Administration...
TWEEDLES-Booth Tarkington has resurrected his mood of Seventeen, brushed it off, and offered it in new surroundings. His followers find it as fresh as ever...
...Critics. John Galsworthy: "Her talent was unique among us. . . . her work stirs and excites us, and so quietly; it is an expression of the mood in love with life. It has the rare flavor that endures. Beautiful work...