Word: blush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Taylor's fourth major policy is at first blush paradoxical, involving both centralization and decentralization. Carnegie and Illinois Steels will be united under the control of a new organization, headed by Benjamin F. Fairless, a school-master-turned-steelmaster and now executive vice president of Steel Corp.'s second biggest competitor, Republic Steel. Steelmaster Fairless, however, will make his headquarters not in Manhattan but in Pittsburgh and will probably rule the most autonomous province in Steel's sprawling empire...
...more willing to lend money, less attracted to thrifty people and more to spendthrifts, less impressed by John Wanamaker, more willing to work for fun than for financial gain. They have self-assertiveness, initiative, self-reliance, ambition, integration of purpose. They make decisions promptly, are not easily flustered, seldom blush. They tend to be nonconformists, seek excitement, do not make many excuses for their mistakes. They would rather be foreign correspondents than Y. W. C. A. workers or school teachers. Toward idiosyncrasies in others their attitude is generally tolerant. They are not offended by The New Republic, people who talk...
...year-old George Weyerhaeuser's kidnappers had been caught, another identified. Few were the facts which Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation chose to reveal, but they were enough to make the nation cheer for its police, blush for its prisons...
Under the "Unholy Holy Land" caption, TIME, May 13, reports an article written by Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century. At first blush it is mildly surprising to find a cultured churchman indulging in the old chestnut game of dragging supposed Catholic inconsistencies from the fires of bigotry. In his article, he claims that Greek and Roman priests exercised more despicable charlatanry than the Palestinian dragomen, that a Franciscan monk pointed out in "Mary's house" the actual pillar at which the Virgin stood on the day of the Annunciation...
...famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced a sheaf of letters written by Lord Revelstoke when he was a Cambridge undergraduate and which last week made him blush painfully in court...