Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mellon picked up his tiny cigar, puffed it nervously. He would have liked to depart at that point. But Congressmen do not often get a chance to cross-question the Secretary of the Treasury and when they do they make the most...
...From the painter's point of view, a woman is merely a short-legged animal. In a long skirt . . . the effect of her short legs and disproportionately large head is softened, but cut her off in a horizontal line at her knees and hips and have two awkward Indian club legs dangling below, and you have a problem that is truly impossible...
Everything depends, of course, upon the point of view. Soon after his crime young Princip, whom the Austrian Imperial Prosecutor grimly called "too young to hang," was locked up under a sentence of "solitary confinement in a darkened cell for life." As was intended, he withered in the damp dark, died of consumption...
When the War started by Princip shattered Imperial Austria, his province of Bosnia with its capital Serajevo entered the new kingdom of "Greater Serbia" or Jugoslavia, and the Great Assassin seemed from the point of view of his people a pure hero. They tore out a wall tablet erected in mourning for the assassinated Archduke, replaced it with a laudatory tablet to Princip, surmounting his name with laurel wreaths. Protests from abroad caused the Jugoslavian Government to order the Princip tablet covered with a thin layer of plaster, the official position being that it has been obliterated, while the populace...
There is undoubtedly a moral to this, too obvious to point out, and the crowd will await the outcome with patience--but fortunately. Englishmen are also noted for their self-restraint...