Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped a footnote - definitely on the learned side - from a Science story about the chimney swift. The footnote was a stanza from a poem about a curlew, by W. B. Yeats. A researcher who was dispatched to the public library to find and check the verse, being in no mood to go through all of Yeats' works, finally telephoned the English department of Columbia University and asked for their expert on Yeats. He was at home, preparing a bottle for his baby. When the professor had finished his chore, he found the poem, after some searching, and found also...
Italy's tantrum of outraged national pride over Trieste recalled similar symptoms of hyper-nationalism after the last war. Then, as now, Italians insulted their friends, wallowed in self-pity and exaggerated every setback into a catastrophe. A wise but polysyllabic Italian, Giuseppe Borgese, described the national mood: "The nation, masochism-stricken, exulted in frustration...
Dead of Night (Ealing-Universal) is an unusual, British-made thriller which Universal is hawking in the U.S. with an unusual ad campaign. "The everyday phrases and superlatives of ballyhoo," say Universal's ballyhoo experts, "are completely inadequate to capture the mood, the depth, the excitement of this oddly stirring motion picture...
...Molotov's conciliatory mood was short-lived. The deadline set by Byrnes for clearing up the agenda, June 28 (it happened to be the 27th anniversary of the Versailles Treaty and the 32nd anniversary of Archduke Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo), had arrived. Besides Trieste, other issues remained unsolved: free navigation on the Danube, Russia's insistence on Italian reparations, the economic clauses in the Balkan treaties and, last but not least, the "German question...
Elsewhere on the Square, the passing of OPA controls occasioned less of a flurry. Shoeshine boys were holding the line, and liquor stores generally agreed that profits were satisfactory at present price levels. Clothiers opened Monday morning in a public spirited mood. Leopold Morse promised no immediate changes, and J. August planned, to hold all merchandise stock at the OPA levels. Tedford-Harvard remained adamant...