Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rests upon these four: to match the tradition of Kneisel, to play upon the instruments of Antonio Stradivari. Felix M. Warburg provided each one with a precious Stradivari, a taut, light, sensitive, beautiful creature that quivers to the slightest vibration of a string, laughs, cries, pleads, cajoles to the mood and art of the musician. These are not things. They are temperaments, identified by their own names for centuries, treasured, loved by the men who have been fortunate to know their richness. The "Titian" was once owned by Efrem Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle...
...surprises would not be revealed until just after New Year's. With the Manhattan automobile show begins a strenuous stretch of weeks when the automobile men of the U. S. flock from city to city in a mood half carnival, half belligerent. What important Detroiters were doing last week- besides conferring finally with engineers, designers, bodybuilders and advertising experts-was to make hotel reservations, dates with friends, memoranda of wives' shopping orders, etc., etc. Their big annual party and grim selling campaign, were about to begin...
...Will you take the letter. Martha? . . Stop drumming on the table . . You're not in the mood to take a letter? . . Who told you you could go in for moods? . . Lay off moods, Hepplethwaite; leave them for your betters...
...does not come to heel in the matter of its land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25) which the Coolidge Administration deems retroactive and confiscatory. As a matter of fact Secretary Kellogg had spoken as if the Administration might do something, but everyone knew that Congress was in no mood to fight or intervene in Mexico at present...
...French press saw, likewise, the hand of Dictator Mussolini in attacks by Fascists mobs, last week, upon the French consulates at Tripoli and Benghazi in Italian Tripolitania. Though the Italian Foreign Office "apologized," the impression lingered that Fascists are being roused to a fighting mood against France, represented as the fertile republican ground upon which plots are hatched against Fascism...