Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything about it. I haven't even read it'"); Henry Wallace ("He was very uneasy and begged us to excuse him"); G. O. P.'s Vice-Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary ("He said young men in uniform to solve the unemployment problem is Hitler's method...
...American people have handsomely supported, showered wealth on me, and now I want to do something to express my gratitude. . . ." So said Ely Culbertson, 49, onetime (1907-13) anarchist and Social Revolutionist in Europe, now longtime U. S. bridge tycoon. His method of expressing his gratitude: running for the Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-large in Connecticut...
...these cases the Administration's methods had a spur-of-the-moment look, gave no hint of how prices might be controlled in the face of a real inflation. But last week that hint was given. The offending commodity: chemical wood pulp used for paper, rayon, explosives. The method: a round-table agreement. Franklin Roosevelt, in describing it, clearly indicated that his Defense Advisory Commission had established a precedent...
Peculiar to this century is a form of wit inadequately known as screwball. Its method is free association; its state of mind is somewhere between a power dive and a tail spin. It has close affinity with hot jazz, surrealist painting and the deranged poetry of Rimbaud. It calls for an exquisite sense of cliche and mimicry, and a nihilism which delights in knocking over-crystallized words, objects and gestures into glassy pieces that cut each other. Most advanced living practitioner of this form of wit is James Joyce. Perhaps quite as richly gifted in it, if far more inhibited...
...United States desires to contribute to re-establish continuity in world commerce, it must abandon the wrong method of wanting at the same time to be both the greatest creditor nation and the greatest export country...