Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though to add comic relief, this picaresque collection of individuals is rounded off with the Union Party candidate, Carleton Brett, and the hero of Little Italy, Signor Santosuosso. Although they may well be better suited for office than some of their opponents, the chance of their receiving more than 10,000 votes between them is slight...
...proposal is not mine but is put forward by President Hutchins [University of Chicago]. I am strongly opposed to it. I mentioned it in the book only to hold it up to scorn. After severely denouncing the present deplorable conditions in high schools, I said this plan would only add two more years to be conducted under the same conditions...
There must be no ill feeling, no matter how cleverly put, in the verse, although no names will be printed. Far-fetched rhymes are in place, especially if they add to the humor or the unity of the limerick, and two-word rhymes or the use of an extra-hard name will be given especial credit...
...entire initiative up to warm Franklin Roosevelt, cold Neville Chamberlain did his best to give Japan. Germany and Italy an impression that Britain will not be to blame for whatever ultimate difficulty the new Washington policy may cause them. The Prime Minister went out of his way to add: "We were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would...
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when...