Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prevailing wage in any locality for the work to be given the unemployed. Then up rose Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah crying: "For God's sake, get something done to feed the people who are hungry!" Public and Press were making themselves heard in a like vein. Besides, Administration leaders in Congress threatened not to allow the customary two-weeks adjournment for Christmas and New Year's if the relief bills were not passed. Congress finally listened. Result: Joint conferees compromised on a $45,000,000 drought-relief bill in which the word "food...
Turning from the thoughtful and carefully composed essay of Mr. Melish the reader comes upon E. L. Belisle's "Dialogues of the Half Dead"--the order is rather reversed since Mr. Belisle's sketch occupies the opening pages of the issues. Here is something in quite a different vein--a sort of Babel of philosophers, poets, and literary figures of all ages and kinds. The scene is half-way up Olympus; the characters range from Aristotle, Socrates, Aristophanes, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, to Freud, Joyce, Lawrence, Babbitt and many others. Mr. Belisle's effort is the kind of thing...
...styling his dramatic venture an "indulgence," Mr. Bynner chose an aptly wise term, and one which gave him at the outset an abundant license to exercise his poetical imagination fancy free. Unbound by too-rigid dramatic requirements, he has created a gay satire in a distinctly individual vein, exercising an almost abandoned liberty in its construction, flaunting, if not openly violating, certain established dramatic conventions. Scenes change with an almost alarming rapidity; characters come and go with startling swiftness, often, we fear, leaving voids behind, for most of them are too delightfully drawn to be casually cast aside as mere...
...artistic but exceedingly facetious. It is in a comic vein not exactly in keeping with the exhibition as a whole...
...Frederick Stock conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bach's Suite in B minor, for flute and string orchestra. And after the overture, he will strain his ears for the stately rhythm of the polonaise, and the humorous, catchy tones of the badinerie, which shows Bach in his lightest vein...