Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Conservative member was returned without any opponent having dared to stand against him, another in which the Conservative candidate was defeated by Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill, who thus becomes the twelfth female M.P. Dr. Summerskill had fought her Labor campaign as much as possible in the vein of defending handsome young Conservative Anthony Eden against the Conservative Prime Minister, so His Majesty's Government were chagrined to lose this bye-election...
With what you say about philology--And little else. The philosophic vein...
Ability. Carefully labeling his views as his own and not official War Department opinions, Major Phillips wrote in a vein contrary to most previous expert opinions on the war: "Franco has been almost constantly on the offensive and has been everywhere successful, excepting his failure to take Madrid early in the war. The [Leftist] government army has shown itself incapable of sustained offensive action. Each of their costly offensives has had some initial success, and finally bogged and fell back when Franco brought troops up to counterattack. Troops with amateur commanders and amateur staffs cannot maneuver, they only stumble...
...dirty and her face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...
Speaking of doctors, he said that they are often accused of being narrow-minded, but claimed that the remedy for this situation was for a prospective doctor to take a non-medical specialization in college. In a more general vein, Dr. Bock mentioned that men would have to work hard to get real worth of their college course--that it took a ton of raw material to give an ounce of pure gold...