Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...
Broadway Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, Our Town) was not in the mood for love. "There's been a decline in the quality of writing," he told Columnist Ward Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have...
...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
...tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...
...also wrote and directed another unconventional thriller, The Red House (TIME, Feb. 17). Daves's first-person-singular manipulation of the camera profits by Robert Montgomery's good pioneering in Lady in the Lake (TIME, Jan. 27). Director Daves also has a sensitive hand with atmosphere and mood: there is a beautiful outdoor scene, for instance, in which the exhausted, bandaged Bogart, like a figure in a nightmare, staggers through the cold dawn light up a prodigious flight of empty wooden steps...