Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell is apparently still laid low with shock -- or, at any rate, if he is capable of learning anything, he has retired into a silence which will probably not be pregnant of the rash bombast that he has displayed in the past. Mr. Snell's confreres are also quietly lugubrious, and it looks as if the President has once again outsmarted the boys at the Capitol at their own game...
...President's message to Congress, although it contained a few pregnant sentences calculated to sound the radical horn, did not answer the basic radical question of public ownership Much of the radical criticism of President Roosevelt, from the beginning of his administration, has been directed at his refusal to answer this question. Much of the conservative criticism has been directed at his obvious intention to carry out legislative reform which would be meaningless, because unsanctioned, unless he answered it in the affirmative. The tragedy of the President's position is that both of these criticisms are perfectly sound...
...Europe's 100,000,000 souls were 80% Roman Catholic, 20% Jewish, Hussite, Waldensian, Lollard. But Europe was already pregnant with Protestantism...
...affairs with women were invariably unhappy. For one thing, his appearance was against him. His first inamorata turned out to be otherwise engaged. The second could not stand the sight of him. Then he took up with a pregnant prostitute. But he learned to do without love; he had a presentiment that his time was short, and he had the long road of art to travel. He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced. But it was against his grain. Suddenly he left Paris, went...
...play has one set and three characters, all women. Besides Miss Nazimova, they include Dr. Monica's lady architect roommate (Gale Sondergaard) and a pregnant servant girl (Beatrice de Neergaard) whom Miss Nazimova takes in. Nazimova has been giving her husband a dose of solitude to "strengthen" him, meanwhile undergoing an operation to enable her to have a child by him. Demoralized by the operation, she is further demoralized to learn that the father of the servant girl's unborn child is her philandering husband. Good study of lower middle-class psychology is the scene in which...