Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Julian Wadleigh, whom Chambers had identified as a onetime member of the Communist apparatus in Washington. Though he had refused to answer questions by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the ground that he might incriminate himself, he had obviously come to court in a mood to tell...
...growing body of U.S. opinion answers, "Soon." U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is about to leave for Europe in a mood to ask European financial authorities why general devaluation, beginning with the pound, should not start...
...mood of the conference, grim at the start, had perked up considerably by closing day. Said one departing delegate: "I wonder if their enthusiasm will fade when they come down to earth back home." Replied another: "Why should it? It's unrealistic not to believe in miracles these days...
Proceed wifh Caution. Once celebrated as a playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
Wall Streeters have had an uneasy feeling about long holiday weekends ever since 1946. That year, after a three-day Labor Day weekend, they came back to work in a restful and unsuspecting mood, only to see the big wartime bull market collapse in six days of heavy selling. Last week, after the three-day Memorial Day weekend, they came back feeling pretty nervous. They had reason...