Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...
...recorded not only exotic sounds which the average zoo-goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
...this, in the old days lusty, ingenious, scatterbrained. Wilder seeks to recapture in a period spoof that is just short of burlesque. He neatly touches his stock characters and classic antics with quaintness and whimsical fancy. At his best, he gives The Merchant of Yonkers the nostalgia as well as the noise of an oldfashioned German street band. Where most modern farces have a hard, alcoholic hilarity, The Merchant of Yonkers for two acts romps and lets fly with all the innocence of a pillow fight. One of the best casts of the season throws the pillows for all they...
...hope of every national person that a showdown between these opposing forces can be avoided that appeasement, granted by the democracies to the totalitarian states with the demand of a quid pro quo, can reestablish international order. The weapons for this accomplishment are economic. "There are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people," the President significantly said Wednesday...
...demands and proposed revision of the neutrality laws. Even while the President was speaking, destructive opposition was forming; one can almost hear the Congressional hand-organs beginning to grind out "entanglement," "George Washington," and, doubtless, "un-American influences." But rationally viewed, the President's program for combating totalitarianism, stopping short of military sanctions ("We rightly decline to intervene with arms to prevent acts of aggression") and emphasizing economic strength, with which the United States is richly endowed is constructive and far-sighted, and deserves Congressional cooperation...