Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creating a good impression. Instead of trying to do our thinking for us or to give us ready-made conclusions, as the Gormans generally tried to do, they compel us to like them personally. In other words, they labor to put us in a favorable mood by means of their engaging personalities. When in that frame of mind it is difficult for us to reach conclusions that are unfavorable to British plans and policies...
When a man takes out a volume at 10.00 P. M., he usually studies it for at least two hours before going to bed, so that he does not feel in the mood to get up early the next morning for the sole purpose of returning it on time. If he takes it out on Saturday, he may wish to go into Boston for dinner on Sunday--and so he faces the difficulty of having it returned to the library between one and two o'clock on that afternoon. Of course room-mates are useful as messenger boys...
Franklin K. Lane was a poet, philosopher, a constructive statesman, and a business man according to the time of day, the mood, or the occasion. The importance of the volume of his letters is that he here translates his enthusiasm, his philosophy, personal and political, and above all his life into a work where we meet him on as intimate terms as a friend would, "and after all" as he says, "a man does not do any better in any year than make a friend...
...Dramatic Club. The settings follow the trend of the impressionistic school, the stage of suggestion; with no attempt at any realistic illusion. All of the five scenes is set against a background formed by a black cycloramic cone covered with grey gauze. The settings harmonize with the mood and action of the play, beginning with the humble scene of Man's birth and reaching its climax in his magnificence in the third act and then declining into a distorted chaos which reflects the final note of the play...
...downfall. The two windows now twisted drunkenly stand out in silver draped with large swirling folds of blue gauze. A bed, oddly out of proportion, is seen in silhouette at the left, with a misshapen fireplace to the right, the whole combination reflecting to a remarkable degree the mood in which the play closes...