Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials share the world's growing belief that one restraint on Soviet power politics is the fact that the U.S., for all her fading force and domestic distraction, still has The Bomb. With that in mind, U.S. policy-makers last week gave Bernard Baruch a clear directive on the course to take as U.S. member of the atomic commission. If Russia really cooperates in U.N. and the peace, the U.S. will gradually turn her atomic secrets and know-how over to international control. If Russia stalls, the U.S. will stall in the commission-and keep right on making bombs...
...gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...
Chico, whom Bob Benchley called the Annie Oakley of the piano, obliges on that instrument as pleasantly as ever. Harpo, who once was dangerously close to artiness, still has the best of his old wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such...
...Book. This book† was tactfully pigeonholed during the war, while Stalin was America's battle comrade. This week, as if in reward for this restraint (claimed by some to have been inspired...
Oldtime Cinemactress Lillian Gish, rarely seen in films during recent years, is a lacy, frail, sweet Miss Susie. As an earnest but queasy would-be surgeon living in her house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...