Word: recoils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Autumn Crocus" was one of the successes of last year both in New York and in London. It is a recoil from the hard-boiled type of comedy that is represented by Mr. Noel Coward, being written in the tradition of Barrie. Instead of depending for its appeal on verbal celverness, or shocking lines it sets up in place of these an air of quiet pleasantness and of deliberately sentimental romance. It is difficult to draw the line between tenderness and a sweetness that becomes sickening; but Barrie was able to do it and it is done with almost...
...population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...
...workers operates between employers, and yet they realize how devastating the unrestricted warfare of powerful unions and large employers associations is likely to be. From the only other alternative, that of allowing the government to play a larger and larger part in the regulation particularly of wage bargains, they recoil in the same sort of terror before the unknown felt by liberal economists when they contemplate a broad program of industrial and agricultural regulation. Whether the alternative their attitude implies is any more desirable or even possible, they seldom stop to consider in any detail...
...Commons last week. The gun was charged for just one purpose: to save the lives of six electrical engineers held for trial in Moscow on charges of espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27, April 10). Because of the obvious danger to British trade from the gun's recoil if fired, the embargo enabling act was limited to three months, and hints were scattered in all directions that the embargo would not be declared at all UNLESS...
...established the Republic] in that this one was conducted with discipline. I repudiate the charge brought against me that in my Essen speech I gave a signal for relaxing discipline, much less for plundering and the like. But this I emphasize, that I am not so cowardly as to recoil from that which Nazis have done in the exuberance of their feelings...