Word: statical
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...Europe is not pretty, but it seems to me that there are considerable grounds to think it will not be as completely dark as the past eight years of Germany's dynamic advance have made us believe. With the scope of the army definitely checked, the regime must become static. To maintain itself it must satisfy the wants of the people, many of whom have a background of western humanism. The transfer of a nationalized economy, which has many socialistic principles in it, from a war to a peace footing may not prove a completely hopeless thing...
...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
...incurred the wrath of Brooklyn when static cut it off from Pittsburgh in the middle of a Dodger-Pirate game...
Martin's executive vice president Joseph Hartson explained her disheveled condition. The scrambling Lilliputians were making the last of the static tests to be sure that she was sound of limb. She was being distorted by jacks, and her most fractional yieldings under the strain were being read to make sure that she would hold together under the buffeting of flight and rough-water landings...
That life, commingled with a sculptor's (Reginald Gardiner) who models "the essential Caroline" in brass (see cut), turns out to be less exciting than it promises to be. For Director Lewis Milestone has forsaken action for a series of static scenes bowed down under too much talk. The talk is sometimes funny, seldom convincing. But oldtime Actor Colman, now a greying 50, turns in a neat performance in his offhand, sotto voce manner, and England's Anna Lee (in her first big-time U.S. cinema role) is a first-rate Caroline...