Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country in the world. Exporter Mooney spends most of his time inspecting his domain. A round-the-world trip is almost a yearly chore. He is 49, Irish, restless, athletic, enthusiastic, popular. He is in London as much as he is in the U. S. Though he speaks no foreign languages, he staffs his offices as far as possible with native labor, respects native customs. He knows that a maroon car cannot be sold in Japan because that color is reserved for royalty...
Newspapermen knew that Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed...
...Chase National (see p. 27) but his big achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding the line, came closest to an exception...
...Edinburgh restless Scotsmen held the first regular caucus of their new Scottish Self-Government party, elected as its leader stodgy James Graham, the excessively aristocratic 6th Duke of Montrose...
...purpose which separate it completely from its deplorably self-conscious contemporaries. In a sense, it might be termed a reversion to the Elizabethan spirit. which arbitrarily inserted comedy into tragedy and tragedy into comedy, in order that audiences at the Globe standing elbow to elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards the Anglo-Saxon ideal that the function of drams...