Word: nods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across State lines. He mentioned the inability of State power commissions to deal with utilities operating within their territories but not legally subject to their jurisdiction. Said he, with a nod to Judge Mack's known sentiments on monopoly...
...cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles, it is a slick, high-powered old-school tearjerker, guaranteed to please...
...Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written Winter set, the best American play of 1935-36, with a friendly nod for the excellent of his Valley Forge and Night Over Taos of previous years. By writing in a loose yet strong verse, Maxwell Anderson, Stanford, M. A., preserves something of the scholarly air taste and training have led him to cherish...
...Nod or Shake? In London last week His Majesty's Government suddenly seemed to lose interest in the White Paper which it had taken the lead in negotiating. This lightning change occurred after Adolf Hitler sent to London by his special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week a six-page reply to the White Paper, the gist of which was that Germany rejected its terms in toto and that the Great Powers must mark time until the Realmleader should send them his proposals for what is to be done about Germany's rupture of treaties. Ambassador von Ribbentrop...
...afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest cannonade in U. S. history just dying away among the Gettysburg hills, a burly bearded officer nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose...