Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same ill-chosen evening, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, addressing the Michigan League of Women Voters, clanged an equally unheard tocsin. His theme: glorification of "Yes, but" statesmen, as preservers of democracy's traditions...
When Lord Leverhulme departed from Washington the British soap tycoon was supposed to go to Boston for the tenth annual Boston Conference on Distribution. That too had an international theme - discussion of a world census of distribution - but with things getting hotter abroad every minute, Lord Leverhulme decided to go home, left his speech to be read to the 400 conferees...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...
...became more prosaic, duller. Recently schoolbook readability has been on the upswing. Last week many a delighted moppet began the fall term with a quaint new grammar, full, like The New England Primer, of verses, pictures and homely illustrations. Unlike the Primer, however, A Living Grammer* takes for its theme not piety...
...intrigue in the Catholic Church and the formation of a mysterious secret society. They introduced a young scientist, an oil magnate involved in a love affair with his partner's wife, a munitions maker with curious vices, a broken-down novelist, a successful dramatist, students, schoolgirls, fortunetellers. Major theme linking the characters was an awareness of the danger of war, which influenced their moods, their actions and above all their ambitions for the future...