Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
...Stresses Mood and Emotion...
...Mood of Nonviolence. In Washington, Senator Robert Taft's Labor Committee went on about its work. Congressmen were not in a violent mood. But they were prepared to curb labor as it had not been curbed in years. On the Committee's table were bills to set up a federal mediation board which would replace Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's conciliation service; bills to outlaw the closed shop, to end industrywide bargaining, to amend the Wagner...
...states now under the firm control of other major powers. But, if the main strength of America's position in the world is to rest on something more than military might, it can ill-afford to brush off remarks about the inconsistency of her stand in an annoyed mood of indignation...
Picasso himself was back in Paris last week, with nothing to say about his change of mood. He had locked up his Riviera labors-about 50 pieces, including gouaches and drawings-and left the key with his friend the curator, who hoped that Antibes would make the green museum room a "Picasso Hall." That was all right with Antibes' practical-minded Mayor Jean Pastour. "In my mind," said the Mayor, "Picasso's paintings are . . . monstrous things. . . .Yet the world is full of madmen who love Picasso, so if Picasso gives our museum some paintings, we will accept...