Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Likely to have a happy marriage is the person whose parents have been happy. ¶ Contrary to the general belief, the more strongly the husband and wife are attached to their parents, the more likely they are to be happy in marriage...
...Happy Landing Sonja Henie received $80,000, bringing her cinema earnings for three pictures to $210,000. On the well-based belief that Sonja Henie is showing the biggest box-office appeal since Charlie Chaplin, Producer Zanuck has contracted to pay her $125,000 each for next season's three pictures...
Igiring the morning session, William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke on "The New Balance of Power." He stressed the belief that the nations who are at present supporting the "Status quo" should make sacrifices to Japan and the Rome-Berlin axis in order to prevent greater sacrifices later in the form...
...Craven, as the minister who marries the boy and girl lovers, doesn't know whether he approves of marriage or not, but in the last act the events and he become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them...
Calling in reporters, the crotchety, 74-year-old tycoon outdid himself in genial interviews. First he delivered himself about the State of the Nation. Referring to "the prevailing belief that wages should he reduced and prices raised," he declared: "The people are getting a good education in the fallacy of the economic rule now in force. Whenever prices go down and wages up, benefits accrue. Eliminate the greed for money and substitute a little zeal for production and normal conditions soon will return." The liberal New York World-Telegram commented that these sentiments "just can't be matched...