Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is exactly the case with Mr. A. E. Thomas play "No More Ladies." At first sight it is impressive, but in retrospect it is seen to be riddled with faults. The plot is hackneyed, for it is the ancient story of what a wife does when she learns that her husband has been unfaithful to her. The lines possess a certain surface cleverness and brilliancy, but an unevenly mixed Coward-Barry-Lonsdale ancestry is painfully evident. In welcome relief to these mediocre features is the character portrayal; with the exception of the acidulous old lady who astounds the younger...
Whether or not Mr. Roosevelt is a great leader is a question which cannot be decided on the basis of his actions so far; the final answer can be made only in historical retrospect. One thing, however, is certain. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a highly sensitive reflector of public opinion; he possesses an uncanny faculty for gauging the mood of the country, and how it will react to any given measure. The reception accorded by the public to his budget proposals is ample testimony to the truth of this. Everywhere they have met with almost unqualified approval by the people...
...throat competition and laissez faire are over. Few industrialists want them back Many of them would agree with NRA' s Divisional Administrator Arthur Dare White- side, Dun & Bradstreet executive, one of the most experienced practical businessmen in the Administration, who said last week: "It is obvious in retrospect that four years ago this month the old industrial order which existed for generations broke down forever. Today we have set up a new order which has been built on a foundation which I firmly believe will prove indestructible, although I am definitely convinced that it will be necessary to make...
...civilizations, had a successful, if not sensational, year in 1933. An antique world was more generous in giving up its hidden treasures than a modern world in the fourth year of a depression was in supplying cash for researches. Yet as archeologists last week viewed their year in retrospect they could point to a surprising number of diggers at work all over the earth.* Prime doings of diggers during the twelvemonth...
...Retrospect, by Aldous Huxley. An ombus volume...