Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...
...discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber...
Europe" (presumably Finland). Editor Cockburn, also on the staff of London's Communist newsorgan the Daily Worker, tried to suggest, even as the Kremlin's propagandists have in Moscow, that Finland was aided and abetted by Great Britain in her "aggressions" against the Soviet Union...
...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...