Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always pithy, his poetic vein sometimes turns political...
Points from Benito Mussolini's speech in Herbert Hoover's vein...
...poets have become bestsellers, but Stephen Vincent Benet turned the trick when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...
...years ago after a performance in a Swiss kurhaus before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic. In Germany, where pretty, tinted dancing never flourished, she has built up a successful school in Dresden, inspired hundreds of imitators, won thousands of converts. Wigman interviews last week were in the vein of "I love life!" and "I am lying on the earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music into movement." Wigman audiences received...
...prevailing wage in any locality for the work to be given the unemployed. Then up rose Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah crying: "For God's sake, get something done to feed the people who are hungry!" Public and Press were making themselves heard in a like vein. Besides, Administration leaders in Congress threatened not to allow the customary two-weeks adjournment for Christmas and New Year's if the relief bills were not passed. Congress finally listened. Result: Joint conferees compromised on a $45,000,000 drought-relief bill in which the word "food...