Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undoing last week. Under persistent questioning, Eisler finally admitted that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926, that he had visited Moscow at least three times, that he had once been the guiding spirit behind the Comintern's "international bureau of music." The conclusion was obvious that, whether now or in 1940, he had perjured himself. The committee therefore ended its three-day show by demanding that the Department of Justice 1) prosecute the composer for perjury, and 2) start deportation proceedings against...
...Slick, making the case for the independents, get 45? to $5.01 a ton-mile for carrying the U.S. mail. "How," he demanded, "can they have it both ways? If they can afford to carry freight for 12?, why do they need 45? for mail?" Answered he: "It is an obvious attempt to drive us to the wall...
That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...
Editor Leech was not amused. Wrote he: "We don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of freaks and crooks . . . boobs and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
...Zetterling) of the demobilized Englishman (David Farrar) can't be wholly "guilty" and is perhaps hardly "guilty" at all. A large part of the picture merely shows Mr. Farrar's mother (Barbara Everest), political-minded aunt (Flora Robson) and fellow townsmen slowly getting used to the obvious. Miss Zetterling's brother (Albert Lieven), on the other hand, is as fanatical a Nazi as Hitler himself; so there is no very interesting question about brother's guilt...