Word: vetting
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...Hugenberg, disturbed and losing his place in his carefully prepared manuscript looked up, seemed not to realize that he was being jeered, and observed with complete political naïveté: "Yes, that was yesterday...
...late campaign I found myself in a very awkward situation. I could not issue any publication, because of my being on the bench and vet the New York...
...treaties would lead to a disagreement among the allies, and hence play into the hand of the enemy. Anyway, Wilson was sure that U. S. economic power was such that "when the war is over we can force them to our way of thinking." At such naïveté, or was it conceit?, how Balfour must have laughed up his trim cuff, Clemenceau up his wrinkled sleeve...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
...that the so called Mencken school has developed. It is perfectly natural to criticise American Rotaryism, religious Ligotry, and other popular foibles, vet whenever anyone does it, Mencken is immediately blamed or credited, because he was the first to find similar faults glaring enough to attract attention...