Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so, that Congress was unlikely to be in a tax-increasing mood. The U.S., already $256 billion in debt and likely to add $5.5 billion to its burden this year, found little warmth in the news that it might go into the red another $7 billion next year...
...support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
Actually Mr. Bowles does achieve some very fine mood creation in his descriptions of travels through the deserts from one squalid town to the next. Only when he allows his characters to become reflective does he ruin this mood...
...than air. Yet the somber, dilapidated house front dwarfing the children on the sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...