Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TWILIGHT OF A WORLD-Franz Werfel -Viking...
...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...masterpiece of strategy" which would win much sympathy for the Plan. Dr. Townsend denied this. The jury found him guilty of contempt of the House, penalty for which is $100 to $1,000 fine, one to twelve months in jail, or both. Thus assured of a brief twilight in the public eye, the onetime oldsters' Messiah complacently observed: "This publicity will accelerate my Movement...
...endow a chair for the first of the "roving professors" long advocated by President Conant. Under this system a man would be unhampered by departmental rules and would be free to "rove" from department to department and from the College to graduate schools, thus eliminating both the twilight zone between two divisions, and also the gaps where no courses are provided...
Chekhov enthusiasts found Biographer Toumanova's summation of their hero a little on the faint side: "Chekhov is a great artist using a small canvas, a poet of the little." Princess Toumanova regards him as the mouthpiece of "the superfluous man," as the sad "voice of twilight Russia." "He lived among the inactive, talkative, dissatisfied intelligentsia, which formed the background of his literary efforts and, as a true physician who diagnoses the disease, he observed stagnation and inertia and gave us a perfect picture of what he saw around him." But that was the later Chekhov. In his early...