Word: veined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College." In the last issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Phillips describes his dismissal from the "Hick College" to which he had devoted "the most vigorous twenty years of his life." Continuing in his defeatist vein, he still praises Harvard whose liberal thought, inspiration, and thorough education cost...
...ounce of prestige they can in the eyes of British voters, His Majesty's Government were booming along early last week with nearly 500,000 tons of war boats in the Mediterranean and with the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill making a banquet speech in such elated Rule-Britannia vein that he woke up the next morning to say: "I do not think we should go about striking these attitudes. There might be a terrible cost for these fine gestures...
...play is an absorbing mystery drama with a strong vein of humor. The quiet Boston Post Road home for tourists operated by Emily Madison(Miss Young) is whipped onto a whirlwind of activity by the precipitate arrival of a doctor, a nurse and a girl apparently on the verge of maternity. The doctor takes charge of the household explaining that the girl is a member of a prominent family and that the affair must be carried off with complete secrecy. Things go smoothly until a few days later when the radio becomes alive with reports of an infant-kidnapping...
...love of politicians for the flag, the home, motherhood and other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth...
...ensuing mimic struggle of 500,000 Italians was pitched in Il Duce's characteristic vein of irony. His "Reds" succeeded in keeping the King's "Blues" from invading the Fascist Kingdom...