Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods out of a rise in national income. Now the slack in men and materials has been used up, and any further stretching of the credit system would send prices bolting to the skies. We are entering into a second period in the national defense effort: a stage of curtailed consumption and deferred purchasing power...
...gazed piteously at his hands, so white, so unblemished; hands which had held nothing heavier than a pen since they had passed out of the rattle stage. He felt his biceps, and it suddenly occurred to him that those arm muscles had never exerted themselves more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...
London's blackout is dismal everywhere, but around Piccadilly it was horrible, with that special horror which the British put so well into stage and movie chillers, sometimes into real life. The slow footsteps of streetwalkers patrolling the gloom gave way to silence. They had not been afraid of Nazi bombs, but they were afraid of this...
...that the man's faith in him is all that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with...
...satire. Critics who are fond of maintaining that the movie-going public will refuse to take in the sort of comedy that appeals to Broadway audiences are going to find the horse-laugh on themselves here, for the Kaufmann-Hart funnybone-tickler has been lifted almost bodily from the stage and set down in celluloid; and it's just as funny...