Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerable work at Mr. Smart's request toward a magazine he had originally conceived. But I must decline any responsibility, either as an editor or contributor, for whatever Ken turns out to be. This is not a criticism of the magazine. I haven't seen it. I haven't the slightest idea what it is going to be like. . . . This is merely a declination of an honor I do not deserve, if it should turn out that the first issue of Ken is a great success, which I hope it will be. But I had no hand...
...indiscretion is the one thing a member of the British Foreign Office must never commit, and last week London rang with the discovery that on March 3 an indiscretion was committed by Civil Servant Thomas Henry Glasse...
...supreme croupier is a state such as Mexico, which has just calmly raked in by expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...symphony is a long composition in three or four separate movements written for a large orchestra. But not every orchestral composition in three or four movements is a symphony. Nearly any composer can string a few movements together like the acts in a vaudeville show. But a real symphonist must build his movements like the acts of a drama, make each one lead to the next, bring down his final curtain on an impressive climax. The great symphonists of any generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand...
...issue of registration, left the rest of the law for future adjudication. This there will surely be when SEC starts reforming the industry after it is completely registered. Some 44% of utility assets have already bowed to the SEC yoke. E. B. & S. and the other holdouts must now follow...