Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Becker claimed that his forehead injury had been certified by a doctor as having been caused by a harder object than a fist, said he had filed insult-&-injury charges against Minister Earle just for the looks of the thing...
Philip Merivale, resembling Black Jack Pershing in mufti, plays the doctor so feelingly that he becomes an object almost for sympathy rather than dislike. He does two splendid bits: 1) when he handles a copy of the New Masses as though it were a bushmaster (see cut), and 2) when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle...
Inclusion of the Ellender Amendment would in no way handicap the Administration's program of economic war against fascism. There has been no satisfactory explanation as to why it has become the object of violent debate instead of being accepted at once. Administration supporters have been suspiciously evasive, and the only audible objection they have made is that it will "tie our hands" in helping Britain. It will not tie our hands unless we are planning to enter the war in a military sense. It will not stop or slow up the flow of materials so vital to the defense...
...Eastern position advocated by American Defense (I am not an author of it) is designed to improve our chances of continuing to draw the line in practice. It does not urge a bluff but a definite stand, with men if necessary. The object is to prevent our enemies from building up the strength to make us really fight, later, in much less happy circumstances...
...post on the Committee, which was formed about a month and a half ago by Secretaries Knox and Stimson, Keppel said that he will strive to improve morale in the armed forces of the nation. His object is to solve entertainment problems of soldiers and to better the communities surrounding army camps...