Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George's first law case was against a railroad on behalf of a woman who tripped over an umbrella and broke her leg. George filed suit for $40,000. The railroad settled for $10-$5 for the woman, $5 for George. "I was in no mood to dicker," is George's gag line...
...Andrew Jackson May was not in the mood. Perhaps it was because the evidence so clearly indicated that he was, to say the least, a conniver...
Blessing & Bilge. That family is the mood and mind of Britain in the gloomy yet still hopeful summer of 1946. The daughter can (and does) document her case with Labor's achievements-some of which are not recognized at home or abroad. In the field of foreign policy, even the Tory father says: "Thank God for Ernie Bevin." He does not mean that Bevin is a mental giant. He senses, as do most Britons, that the Laborites can carry out better than the Tories a certain foreign policy indispensable to Britain's national interests...
...says (but may not suggest). It is a study not of the reign of the great Queen but of the terrible turmoil and trumpeting that ushered in her birth, childhood and adolescence-years when the lives of privy councilors, dukes, queens, princesses, butchers and bakers hung upon a royal mood, a rash word, or a murderous plot concocted behind velvet curtains...
Hamilton's mystery, despite its premature denouement, is properly grim and gripping, and if the actors occasionally fail to inject into the lines all their inherent terror and sombreness of mood, a competent framework is still present. Making all the necessary preliminary reservations about summer productions, they have an interesting chiller on Brattle Street this week...