Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Chamber during a tariff war an assortment of cheap imported articles to illustrate arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky...
Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...
...admits that she has only been scheming to make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third act when he arrives in Hollywood and finds her, scorned by the cinema critics, in a more congenial mood. Mr. Tellegen is emotionally expert but, like Messrs. Faversham and Atwill, he is working with material which is hardly adult...
Bingham friends?old Guardsmen Smoot and Edge? tried to head off the inevitable with substitute resolutions, oblique and apologetic, which "disapproved" of such a transaction without specifically criticizing Senator Bingham. But the Senate, in stern self-righteous mood, rejected them...
...seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring a large and expert orchestra. An opulent mood is induced simply by the massed viols intoning the surging Straussian melodies...