Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...
...well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo and the superb lighting effects make Primanerliebe another reason why U. S. producers should take some more hints from Germanv...
...said, received $50,000 worth of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds from Mr. Hays, who asked for $50,000 cash in exchange. "Andy" said he had declined to have anything to do with the bonds, but contributed $50,000 outright. The investigators were sorry "Andy" had been so slow to disclose this additional light on the Hays-Sinclair performance, and invited him to come over from the Treasury Department to tell more about...
...system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals...
...even wishes he had not enjoyed himself quite so much during the winter. The cold that he had to guard against then can only be found now where the sun never penetrates--and he shivers in his seat in the halls of Sever. He is impatient of the slow-melting ice on the Charles. It is time the grass began to grow green, be thinks--and lapses into the traditional dreams of the young man when spring should be here...