Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy little bee is Editor Peter Vischer of Polo, which Harper & Bros, bought from Publisher Martin Quigley last spring and dressed up for the International Matches (TIME, May 19). Last week Polo was sold again, to a group of Editor Vischer's polo-playing friends who agree with him 1) that Polo should be purely horsey, not social; 2) that smartly published horsiness will pay. Editor Vischer will now run Polo solo, assisted by a learned "advisory council" and with contributions as before from wise young Robert F. Kelley of the New York Times, famed Horse Artist Paul Brown...
...wooden noises of wagons you could hear the bang and rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
...Author. Maurice Maeterlinck, 68, Belgian mystic, playwright, scientist, does not live in Belgium because he says Belgium does not approve of artists. In his villa near Nice he lives with his young second wife (he divorced Georgette LeBlanc in 1919). Other books: The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird, Pellcas et Melisande...
...Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
Fine frenzy, often disingenuously clever, unqualified assertion, propoganda for one cause or another, and, in fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...