Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, the big audience applauded cordially. Igor Stravinsky peered at them through his double-lensed glasses, curved his heavy lips in greeting. Though he was standing there for the first time in twelve years, few in the audience were unfamiliar with the man who, more than any other, had bent modern music to his will...
...International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week came a rare pleasure. The Supreme Court has long seemed bent on limiting his authority, denying him powers which Congress was glad to yield. NRA and the Oil Code were both adjudged unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to the Executive. Last week the Court, sounding not unlike a Psalmist lauding the Almighty, proclaimed the President's supreme might & majesty in a "vast external realm...
...long, successful career, Artist Copley never lacked money. Born when Boston was the most prosperous city in North America, his childish bent for drawing was encouraged by his stepfather, Schoolmaster Peter Pelham, whose shingle advertised: "Reading, Writing, Needlework, Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist...
...Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism's 118th "Stake" or bishopric. It was the second such district...