Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S so overlooking its own good as to treat in so slighting and supercilious a manner a religious teacher's writings which have benefited so many thousands. Not a shrewd policy, to say the least. The tone of the article is unfriendly and has the same note of "superiority" and caustic comment which has come to mark so many of TIME'S commentaries...
...Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably received by the Resolutions Committee, was presumably permitted to hew out the labor plank of the platform on which Franklin Roosevelt will stand for reelection. Significantly the plank went out of its way to take specific note of labor problems which interest John L. Lewis. By last week, newshawks widely concluded, John L. Lewis had entered the charmed circle of Politicians Who Count...
...galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon...
...write a note to Attorney General Cummings asking him "to take appropriate action" (i. e. prosecute under the anti-trust laws) against steel companies as the result of findings by the Federal Trade Commission that Secretary Ickes had been getting collusive bids on steel piling-an action which was shortly followed by Mr. Ickes taking a separate fling at the steel industry for failure to comply with the orders of the Labor Board...
...long (449 pages), rambling, historical novel, Sanfelice strikes a contemporary note in its exhaustive discussion of the ephemeral Republic of Naples, established after the revolution of 1799 and overthrown a few months later. Central figure of the novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous...