Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here, obviously, is a Clémenceau "just talking," smiting the conversational anvil for the fun of seeing sparks fly. Of Greece?the grand, spiritual inspiration of Clémenceau's life, almost his religion? Clémenceau could say to Martet in humorous vein...
...refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...
...companies took the stand of the Messrs. France and Holmes, others, including Standard of California and Associated Oil, agreed to cut refinery runs. The Mellon-controlled Gulf Refining Co. asserted that their gasoline reserves were low, that there was no need for them to cut distillation. In the same vein, Edward G. Seubert of Standard Oil of Indiana said: "We believe the appeal has merit. . . . We are running only sufficient crude to produce gasoline to take care of our current requirements...
Coal Picks Up. In almost optimistic vein it is admitted that the British coal trade, hardest hit by the British General Strike and Coal Strike of 1926, and very nearly prostrate for years afterward, is now at last "convalescent...
...FORTUNE'S first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...