Word: thought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meteor", the egoistic genius who, in his spurt of overwhelming success, ruins the lives of all about him. Never has he given a more powerful performance, never displayed so artistically, his uncanny instinct for attack and transition. A long speech in his hands never becomes boring. Each new thought that forms in the character's head is projected definitely by changes in his voice, in his body, and his face...
...following year he was granted the degree of Ph. D. by the department of Political Economy of Columbia University. He has traveled widely in Europe and has had many contacts with European leaders of Labor, Socialist, and Cooperative movements. His recent books include "A History of Socialist Thought" and "Power Control" Laidler is vice-president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and chairman of the Labor Research Committee of the Rand School...
...most reassuring part of the whole matter is the thought that with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the Houses as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses will afford there will probably be no question of anyone's eating a large majority of meals in his House. Many other minor objections will doubtless be forgotten as soon as men are actually living in the Houses. G. C. St. John...
...thought that the little oil men were not too eager for the appointment of a Great Man as Tsar, inasmuch as Great Man's influence, presumably exerted in sympathy with the program of the large oil companies, might give production restriction an irresistible impetus. But where-ever discussion was unofficial and unpublished, delegates to the tenth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute talked of Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, of Royal Dutch, of price wars and of invaded territory...
...Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...