Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of which Mr. Hoving is very fond is that executives should have no desks, that desks make visitors afraid. His office is fitted as a reception room where he and visitors can relax while they talk. But Mr. Hoving does not relax so very much, at that. Outside of office hours, he has been kept busy with courses at Columbia in philosophy and psychology, courses in art at the Metropolitan Museum. And he has not neglected his social life. Last week he said: "Of course it's hard on Mrs. Hoving, pulling up winter stakes at 45 East...
...announcing the death of his colleague, Georgia's Congressman Crisp observed with some alarm: "It is my honest belief that he was a victim of the strain under which we have been trying to work these last several weeks. . . . Let us reflect and relax some and not kill ourselves...
...longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House...
...Parietal Regulations should be a matter for the Administrative Board to decide. They should be kept uniform for all the Houses, not different for each one. It is a necessity that some action be made to codify them and to relax them in some part to meet the new situation...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill can afford to relax his stern face occasionally and smile on life. Equipped with proven genius, he is comparatively a young man. Money rolls in from Strange Interlude, still on the road. The kudos he has received may be only a sample of what is to come. Above all a living writer, he looks steadfastly to the future, scorns any present estimate of his work, explains: "It seems to me that there is too damned much of that sort of thing being done in America...