Word: adults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America is usually wide awake and tuned in 12,000,000-strong Tuesday nights when Announcer Milton Cross trumpets this familiar radio reveille. For Information Please, the quiz program that plays experts for fall guys, has been capital, dependable, adult radio fun for a year and a half, since last November courtesy of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. Its fast-cracking experts
...husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which she finds insufficiently interesting. . . . She sees the quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation, is not altogether easy. . . . The making...
...Shapley discussed the investigations of various committees interested in the work of amateur adult scientific organizations. He also outlined the part that the University Observatory has played in the community life of Cambridge...
...conversation on the weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing a child, 'he's trying again...
...desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive...