Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...Commons' inveterate gadfly, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, brought into open debate what was in many British minds. In a powerful, reasoned and disturbing speech he shocked the House by declaring: "Unless we can with speed and with the utmost efficiency reorganize our resources . . . victory may be beyond our grasp." Laborite Shinwell went on to denounce the Government's propagandist optimism ("The people of this country have no desire to be fobbed off with an exaggerated optimism which has no foundation in fact'') and the Government's inconsistent announcements on industrial production ("The Government should perform like...
...been economic theorizing. Its culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody to grasp it in half an hour...
Smooth numbers show no spurts of popularity with numbers as old as "Stardust" consistently being purchased today. Hot jazz tends to be less definite with tunes changing position almost every day as a fad as boogey-woogey or songs like "He's My Uncle" grasp undergraduate imaginations...
...told that no one has yet proved it impossible to live in a totalitarian world. God forbid that we should wait until it is proved! The signers fail dismally to grasp the full significance of the Nazi thrust to us. For the record shows that Hitler will tolerate no obstacle to the expansion of the Nazi World Revolution. And we already know what Hitler thinks of democracies...