Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This twice-cover-to-cover TIME-addict sees a possible grave danger in the growing tendency of TIME advertisers to imitate editorial content so cleverly that one must look twice to determine what is news and what is advertising...
...murk of screaming headlines last week TIME readers thought they could see the facts of the German crisis a little more clearly than could most of their bewildered neighbors. Well known to the first group were the depravity of Roehm, the jittery excitableness of Little Man Hitler and Dope Addict Goring, the iconoclastic records of Conservative von Papen and Reactionary von Schleicher, the anomalous position perforce occupied by Grand Old Man Oom Paul von Hindenburg. Many thanks for the two-year build-up which made last week's "purging'' seem logical, the action of its protagonists entirely in character...
There were, however, two selections on the all-star team last week about which no baseball addict was likely to complain. Although both leagues this season are using a uniform lively ball, it has so far been a pitcher's year. Carl Hubbell of the Giants and Vernon Gomez of the Yankees are indisputably the best pitchers in their leagues. If every seat in the Polo Grounds is sold next week it will be because the crowd wants to see them pitch against each other, as they may do in the next World Series. Giant Hubbell, long lean left...
...became associate editor of The New Republic. Translator, poet and champion of his literary generation, he has published one book of verse (Blue Juniata), numerous translations from the French, many a literary article. Slow of speech, heavyset, jovial, he is a devotee of deck tennis, an addict to fishing. Though not a member of the Communist Party, he has become "politicalized," writes with a strong leftish slant...
...dope," added Dr. Milton Helpern, one of Dr. Norris' assistants. Perspicacious Dr. Helpern had noticed that every dead malarial bum had been a drug addict. He visualized a huddle of men in Park Row which, once famed for its newspaper establishments, is actually a murky, musty street of pawnshops, stationery stores, clothing shops, and sodden lodging houses where for 25? a night a man can rent a bunk. In one of those hotels had lived three of the dead bums...