Word: pliant
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...pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving a clear, pliant reading of the part...
...somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...many have since: that there are no legal absolutes, there are only judges' prejudices. Seekers for certainty in the law, wrote he, are victims of the psychological hunger for a father-substitute.* To Scholar Frank, the most intriguing legal philosopher was Jehring, who saw the law as a pliant weapon, a means to an end. But the greatest was Justice Holmes, who saw the law as "an experiment" like life itself...
...become President of Slovakia. Dr. Tiso was kicked upstairs to a post of greater dignity, less power, because the Nazis have begun to consider him "untrustworthy." Simultaneously Minister of Interior Béla Tuka was promoted Premier amid rumors that he will soon be replaced by an even more pliant Nazi tool...
...hell's Smith?" Huey Long snorted in 1930 when one of his stooges suggested that Dr. James Monroe Smith would make a properly pliant president for Louisiana State University. Last week a pertinent question in Louisiana was-"Where the hell's Smith...