Word: moods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Senator Tuft (R-Ohio) told reporters that while no final action had been taken, Senate conferees seemed in the mood to accept a provision of the House labor disputes measure which would limit the fees to be fixed by unions...
Warning to all undergraduates studying for exams: do not read the latest issue of the sometimes-monthly "Harvard Lampoon." It will break into the sober, solemn atmosphere of studiousness; it will spoil the gloomy mood surrounding faded and illegible lecture notes; in short, it will make you laugh...
...Cotton Club was a big, flossy Harlem joint at 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language. He had not yet heard of Stravinsky...
Last week, homeward bound with a headful of Americana, busy Barbara Ward was a little disturbed by some U.S. attitudes. Much of the U.S., she said, seemed to be in a mood to let the rest of the world go by. She hoped, nevertheless, that the U.S. would invest thought, action and $10 billion or so a year in world reconstruction. "It used to be sterling that made the world go round," she said. "Today it's dollars. The U.S. could save the world economically, but I'm not sure you're going...
...London, Herbert Morrison wore his red tie, and lady Laborites turned up at the House of Commons in their nattiest scarlet dresses. The News Chronicle's Columnist Ian Mackay was in a reminiscent mood. "May Day," he wrote of his youth, "to my eager young mind, was the great annual festival of freedom, when the quenchless spirit of the common man was continually refreshed and rededicated to the endless quest of love and friendship, liberty and peace among all the peoples of the world. How many of us even dreamed, as we marched starry-eyed behind the flags . . . towards...