Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same politely barbaric wise-cracking of her first play, "The Women." But it has an element which "The Women" didn't have,--a well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire...
They did not uncover much in subduing the Lafayette and Yale threats, apparently being content to get a touchdown and let the hapless opposition wear itself out against a rock-ribbed line. One Wexler to Gustafson heave did the business Saturday against the Blue, and the Crimson are certain to see more of this combination in Soldiers Field...
...glance at the map shows that Russia does not need the Alands, unless she is imperialistically minded toward Scandinavia, and Swedes hoped Moscow would rest content for a time at least with having obtained prime ice-free outlets to the Baltic through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This gives Russia what she has long desired, a "Central Outlet" midway between her "Northern Outlet" via Murmansk and her "Southern Outlet" via the Dardanelles. Next Soviet thrust, Scandinavians devoutly hoped, may be in the Black Sea, possibly to persuade Rumania to "lease" at Constantsa a Soviet naval base...
Most copper men, glad that they had had their innings, were content to give their customers a chance to work off the loads bought in July and September. Not so Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates, whose customers left him high and dry last spring (TIME, May 22) when he refused to follow his competitors' price cut to 10?. Last week poker-playing Gates showed that he believes in flexible prices-on the up side. He posted a price of 12½?, panicked consumers to come back into the market for more inventory. Reluctantly Kennecott and Anaconda, both with...
That the British Cabinet was content, too, and the Liddell Hart plan or something like it firmly adopted, seemed proved last week when the Cabinet's most restless and rabidly anti-Hitler member, Winston Churchill, in reviewing the War's first month (see p. 55), called on his countrymen not only to rise above fear but also "above inconvenience and, perhaps most difficult of all, boredom...