Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
...read into many ballots, was the actual acquire a place of their own, irrespective of the whole course. If for example, a man's field were Anthropology, his tutor would send him to individual lectures in other department, thus obviating the need for the student's absorbing the welter of material distributed over a whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting a suggestion. Nonetheless, it should be borne in mind-meanwhile an attempt should be made so to coordinate...
...been said that either too complete praise or vituperation withdraws all merit from a criticism. We hestitate to withdraw all worth from our review of "The Little Friend" now at the Fine Arts, nevertheless we intend to adopt an attitude of complete admiration. In all the welter of gigantic, colossal, insignificant movies, it is a real pleasure to praise one that is not planned on a grand scale, makes no pretensions to greatness, yet in yet very sincerity, in the dramatic power of a graceful little girl, reaches the heights...
...From the welter of current publicity regarding the Civil Service, one factor, frequently overlooked, needs to be stressed, and stressed again: that Civil Service in America, whether Federal, State. or Municipal, is at present restricted to positions largely routine in nature. The higher categories of public service, in which precedents are set, and policies determined, are almost invariably filled with political appointees. To be sure, this evil is common to Civil Services the world over, and will be corrected only over a space of years, so deeply is the spoils system rooted in democratic countries. Because the odds are heavily...
...From the welter of misinformation and popular ignorance that surround the recent Senatorial defeat of the Resolution to join the World Court, certain facts stand out with ironical clarity. It is important to realize that the Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American...