Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government can find no stable majority, if the only logical move is to order dissolution and an election on the issue at stake?then the Government can go hang. It has, amid a mounting welter of corruption that produced the Stavisky Scandal (TIME, Jan. 15), the bloody riots in the Place de la Concorde (TIME, Feb. 12) and the reluctant emergence from retirement of ex-President Doumergue as Premier (TIME, Feb. 19) to "save France...
BELIEVING that the course of events since 1929 has "developed among people a new curiosity and a keener critical sense" three members of the English faculty of the California Institute of Technology have published a collection of essays and entitled this "welter of conflicting opinion" "These United States." These articles are grouped under eight headings: society, business and economics, politics, science, religion, literature and art, and sport. Among the authors represented are: William B. Munro, Willard L. Sperry, Raphael Demos, F. W. Taussig, William Z. Ripley, Floyd H. Allport, Harold J. Laski, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Lippmann, Robert A. Millikan...
...stockholders. Before a dignified Federal referee the chairman of the protective committee, Peter M. Leavitt, drew an ugly comparison between the way the Titanic's captain conducted himself in an emergency and the way Mr. McLellan behaved in the foundering of his company. In Mr. Leavitt's welter of metaphors drawn from King Solomon, medicine and the sea it was never quite clear just how Mr. McLellan did behave, but one thing was certain: Founder McLellan was supporting the principal bidder for the property. Indirectly the bidder was George Keenan Morrow, who with Gold Dust Corp., United Cigar...
...Harvard's James Bryant Conant: There is a great danger that at times of crisis like the present we shall disappear under a welter of words used in a perfectly meaningless manner: psychology, integration, relativity, complexes, vitamins, service-you have all heard them. Certainly they appeal to the ignorant, but the really educated should be proof against them...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...