Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Defenders of Poland and the cross of Poland Restored; and from the White Russians, the Order of the Compassionate Heart. His pronouncements, issued with passionate conviction, are oratorical. He boasts that only three Senators and three Representatives have been in Congress before his day, that by a wave of his hand thousands of telegrams of protest will descend on the Congressional desk that dares oppose the Legion. These, like many of his assertions, are ritualistic rather than literal truths...
...organized after his speech. For the good doctor's Old Age Revolving Pensions scheme, better known as the Townsend Plan, had by last week become one of the biggest political facts in the U.S. The early California groundswell of sentiment in its favor had grown to a tidal wave, battering at nearly every door in House and Senate Office Buildings...
Left to breast the tidal wave publicly have been journalists. Minute is the editorial writer's audience, compared with the multitudes whom Townsend propagandists reach by word of mouth, pamphlets, speeches, club meetings. But last week three of the best & best-read columnists in the land jabbed at the rosily glittering Townsend bubble...
Then came a wave of prosperity. He resumed his profession of architect, practicing for 20 years in an office on Manhattan's 42nd Street. As a painter he exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913 that introduced Matisse, Picasso and the French moderns to a baffled U. S. public. Since 1929 the Whitney Museum has bought three of his canvases. Since his architectural practice evaporated he has never made much money, but he has not lacked critical appreciation...
...their theme in order to effect a sentimental happy ending. As a period piece, its unlikely personnel, its carefully sustained atmosphere and even its climax, reached when the hero's mother shows the village elders a lock of his baby hair, are in order. Lacking the tidal-wave sentimentality which made Little Women such an astounding hit a year ago (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), The Little Minister should nonetheless seem pleasant to the public, admirable to the Legion of Decency and a masterpiece to Katharine Hepburn's devotees. Good shot: Wearyworld (Andy Clyde), the lonely village constable, trying...