Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-year-old promptly hauled it out of the royal waistcoat, inspected it solemnly. Stepping backward H. R. H. trod on the foot of an urchin named Patrick...
...preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams-the meditation of old times resumed - their loves, joys, persons, voyages. . . Now finale to the shore, Now land and life finale and farewell. The music, dictated by Delius note by note to his young friend Eric Fenby, was accepted by Britishers as a worthy epilog...
Meanwhile the Standard Union, which had been aiming at virtually the same class of reader and advertiser, slipped steadily backward. Recognizing the duplication, Publisher Peck tried to buy the competing paper at public auction in 1926, finally got it last week. Its circulation...
Object of the search was the most famous child on earth, whose birth, and, up to last week, whose life were jealously guarded secrets. So successfully did his parents keep his name and face out of the Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail...
...agreeable atmosphere about the R.K.O. Keith theatre that lends itself to the enjoyment of the films projected; Leo Weber plays enthusiastically upon the organ, the latest news events and well-selected short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar to mass production...