Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bette Davis' peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize broad social facts reminds one somewhat of "The Shining Hour." At times the dialogue lags and verges on the trite, but the general...
When Oscar Bruno Bach was 18 he made a finely wrought metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII's study. A native of Germany but a longtime resident of Manhattan, Oscar B. Bach is, according to the current Iron Age, "probably the foremost metal craftsman of this country." He has done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless...
...steel turns black, gold, bronze, purple, blue, red or green, and the color becomes an integral part of the surface. The treatment increases the corrosion resistance of 6% chrome steel (16¾? per Ib.) almost to that of high-grade chrome-nickel stainless steel (34? per lb.). Said Iron Age: "The increase in corrosion resistance, in part verified by at least several disinterested laboratories, is astonishing." Last week Mr. Bach declared that use of cheap steel, thus colored and corrosion-proofed would greatly reduce the cost of prefabricated houses...
...Democratic whip and longtime Senator from Illinois; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington, D. C. A starveling Seattle lawyer at 22, a courtly Congressman-at-large at 32, long noted in the Senate for his pink whiskers and noble verbosity, Jim Ham Lewis observed shortly before his death that nowadays age 60 was a man's political prime...
...another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton Smyth, onetime pulp editor, conductor of a mimeographed sheet analyzing foreign affairs, who in the last year has taken over Current History and two venerable, distinguished magazines: Living Age (founded in 1844), North American Review (1815). Associated with him is Publisher Harrison Smith. Owners Smyth & Smith announced there would be no change in The Saturday Review's policy, with George Stevens remaining as editor, Founders Canby, Morley & Benet as contributors...