Word: transient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nursery than the couple's son and imminently expectant daughter-in-law arrive to turn it into a delivery room. Another set of prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...
...love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded by tastes in classical...
Bemelmans seems to be as incapable of writing a sentence that lacks beauty as was Mozart. His materials, on their deceptive surface, are as transient and fragile as Christmas-tree ornaments, but the range of his sympathies and perceptions is greater than that of ten more "serious" books. He makes clear the fact that beauty, discipline, pleasure and kindness are not byproducts, but are at the source of human liberation. He makes clear, as the ambitious Auden half managed to do too, that an age of tragedy and of dementia is of all ages the proper one for a clown...
...that members of the present Government should remain in office." Eden Stands Pat. The Government stood pat. Though its hold on the people seemed weaker, its hold on a Parliamentary majority was unquestioned. Speaking at Manchester, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said: "We shall take no action to gain a transient popular favor. . . . War is a long-term business. The issue will not be settled by any sudden, brilliant improvisation. Not one of my colleagues in the War Cabinet would pretend that ... we have made no mistakes . . . but we do think that our efforts, and above all our Prime Minister, have...