Word: starks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House of Connelly, Success Story, had caused him to be considered perhaps the most intelligent young actor on Broadway. Drama Critic Stark Young of the New Republic wrote an accolade in which he suggested that Actor Tone's roles were "played from a solid, flexible and imaginative basis such as no other of our young actors and few of the older can show." suggested that it would be "interesting . . . to see what moving...
...Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
...taken the U. S. definitely off the gold standard and headed it in the direction of currency inflation. There was no formal statement and the newshawks, scribbling frantically to catch his husky words, were warned that they could not direct-quote the President. But there was the stark fact: the President was embargoing the export of gold. It meant that the dollar, no longer convertible into gold, would have to shift for itself in foreign exchange and seek its own level downward. Was this a sudden decision by the President? No, he had planned the embargo order four days before...
Comparisons between any two such movements are almost certain to be odious. But, briefly, it is obvious that the stark inevitability of the three alternatives set forth in this new petition is more startling, hence more conductive to realistic thinking than is the safe compromise promulgated by the Brown Daily Herald. Moreover, undergraduates will attach far more significance to such a poll, when it is conducted by the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council than when it is conducted by an undergraduate journal whose activity in a case of this sort is at best secondary to its main objectives...
...Throwing back his head with a quick jerk and popping both eyes stark wide for emphasis...