Word: containment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common people's party from perdition in loose liberalism, and that, while receptive, he is unselfish, unconcerned about becoming President. His enemies say that, having long bided his time, this 70-year-old sagebrush poker-player at last holds the makings of a royal flush and can scarcely contain himself when he looks at the pot he might...
...Institute, located behind the Invalides, where Napoleon is entombed, consists of three Georgian-style buildings which contain 68 laboratories inhabited by 218 scientists. Head of the entire organization is grey-bearded Dr. Louis Martin. There are many laboratory annexes throughout Paris, a large library, a hospital, a model monkey centre for experimental studies, and a farm at Villeneuve-l'Etang, near Paris. The Curie Cancer Center is an outgrowth of the Institute, and there are branches in Indo-China, North Africa, Greece and Persia...
...connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic life, psychological conflict...
...Institute's scientists conclude that Democracy, Fascism and Communism in their present forms contain so many frustrations that unless they reform, all three forms of society face the danger of popular revolt...
Sally Rand's "Rancherettes" will doubtless obtain a lion's share of the publicity given the San Francisco Exposition, if only because of their pictorial value; but nevertheless the colossal island built into the Pacific Ocean does contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture...