Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned out to cheer them but the Vice-Burgomaster, who performed the ceremony, lectured them in the same Dutch-uncle vein as the Burgomaster of The Hague used in lecturing Their Royal Highnesses. After completing the marriage with a stroke of his gavel, the Vice-Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while...
...very much lighter vein-and this cousin Newbold reserved for the fourth daily installment of his account, tucking it away unobtrusively-King Edward later evinced what seemed to be the part-owner of the Star a sense of humor "American" rather than "English." His Majesty was graciously pleased to utter to Mrs. Simpson's second cousin by marriage these words, related by Cousin Newbold as a merry royal jest...
...this play that the invading army must not charge his gate, for it is only made of cloth. If one is appreciative of the super-subtlety of this sort of thing, he will probably enjoy the acting of Clarence Derwent and Constance Carpenter, which is in the same vein...
...Thomas Inskip, the pompous new Secretary for Coordination of Defense (TIME, March 23), reported on British Rearmament in an emotional rather than factual vein, "I have never believed and refuse to believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...
...clever are Orthodox priests becoming in their struggle to survive under Soviet conditions that, according to the baffled Communists, many holy men now preach in Russia in the following vein, which was quoted by comrades as a typical example: "Jesus was of proletarian origin, the son of Joseph the carpenter and of a toiling woman. It is necessary to explain that Jesus Christ was the great Socialist and Communist predecessor of the Communist Party...