Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
Larry Lane visited the Coast as adman for Better Homes and Gardens. He was born in Horton, Kans., had jogged around Minnesota with a horse and buggy selling Keen Kutter knives, got his learning at Drake University. Like many another Coast visitor, Larry Lane saw at once how vastly Far Western modes of living, eating, fun-making differed from those of the rest of the U. S. When he bought Sunset (largely for its established name) in 1928, he determined to publish a magazine capitalizing on the Far West's insularity. His first move was to slash the price...
...Publisher Lane relies on slender, studious, Yankee-blooded William Ichabod Nichols. An ex-Rhodes scholar, he became an assistant Harvard dean (of freshmen) at the age of 22, and once helped elect a mayor of Cambridge, Mass. Now, at 33, Editor Nichols is a confirmed Far Westerner, likes nothing better than to print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo them...
Paintings would be better if more young painters knew their minds so well, but in 1932, after nearly eight hard years of dishwashing and other grim jobs, Guglielmi became aware that "painting could be a means of communication." To Louis Guglielmi this was a solemn discovery, solemnly followed up. Working with the painful slowness of a virtuoso who hates virtuosity, living on the Federal Art Project's $22.77 a week, he has finished in five years 16 paintings which he is willing to show. Last week they were shown at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery in his first...
...Tech). Last week it lost again-on a fluke to Duke. Although Duke won the game (7-to-0) on a lucky block of an end-zone punt and got only one first down to Pitt's nine, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils have been so much better than all their other opponents this year they have piled up the most extraordinary record of any major U. S. team: undefeated, untied and unscored on in nine games. Crowned champion of the Southern Conference. Duke celebrated and wondered if it would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...