Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second fact, almost certainly, is that we started up a system of welfare in the 1930s that is simply destructive. It hurts the people who get it more than the people who pay for it. Given the present system, the richer we get, the more dependency we probably should expect...
...ubiquitous Miss Hampshire in a glorious BBC revival of Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband, Helen Hayes in an engaging self-portrait, and Kim Stanley on a bill of one-acters by Tennessee Williams. Last week Playhouse launched a six-part retrospective of life and film in the 1930s. One aim of the series is to slash through the current sentimentalization of the Great Depression era. "Young people romanticize the '30s," says Arthur Miller. "In actuality, it was a terrible time." The opener was Miller's play A Memory of Two Mondays. It is a plotless, proletarian...
...Mullin cheerfully admits that "I stole from everybody." But his familiar caricatures were strictly his own inventions. The Brooklyn Bum was born one afternoon in the 1930s after the downtrodden Dodgers dropped yet another game at Ebbets Field. A cab driver carrying Mullin back to Manhattan asked him, "How'd our Bums do today?" The designation seemed brilliantly appropriate, and the woebegone tramp made his debut in the paper next day. Mullin affectionately dubbed the Dodgers Bums, and the sobriquet stuck. Before long, other cartoonists were forced to devise their own bums to denote the Dodgers...
...height of its power and influence in the 1930s, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune feared nothing. Not even the English language. With the help of a scholarly staffer named James O'Donnell Bennett, McCormick set out in the Trib to change Chicagoland's spelling habits. "Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly. Freighters became fraters and sheriffs sherifs. A Trib editorial proclaimed that there was "rime and reason for every alteration...
About politicians, Townsend is both bitter and occasionally shrewd. He presents well-researched episodes from the 1920s and 1930s, when air force commanders in both England and Germany struggled to strengthen their young units against the opposition of shortsighted, budget-obsessed political bosses. Even Churchill, as early as 1919 when he was Secretary of War, is described as having a "tendency to wobble when attacked." Townsend's sole hero on the ground is "Stuffy" Dowding, commander in chief of Britain's Fighter Command...