Word: boojum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family formed the subject of a brooding, sympathetic novel by a young Virginian whose seriousness of purpose had not been revealed in his earlier books. Born in Lexington, Va. 35 years ago, Charles Wertenbaker began his career as a novelist with a lively story of adolescent cain-raising called Boojum!, followed it with another cut in the same pattern, Peter the Drunk, and with an amusing volume of short stories about his school days at Episcopal High. A more ambitious and responsible piece of work than any of these, To My Father tells the story of the Chastain family...
...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...
...unfortunate that young Author Craven, like young Charles Wertenbaker (Boojum!) and others, has chosen to imitate an individualist whose style is as hard to approximate as that of A. E. Housman. Author Hemingway, luring parodists but defying copyists, has perhaps done more to corrupt young U. S. writers than strong drink...
...Labor Edouard Grinda's announcement that 17,500 persons are now on the French "dole." Two months ago the number was less than 2,000, year ago it was 1,100; but prosperous, gold-hoarding France has suddenly begun to feel a slight pinch from the world boojum of "Depression." Instant Reaction: The State Railways offered reduced fares to foreign laborers desirous of leaving France. Expulsion measures were mooted...
Most worldwide concern of the year was the Depression, its U. S. focus Wall Street. Down there no man carried a bigger load, none fought the Boojum more effectively than Albert Henry Wiggin, sagacious, resourceful, confidence-inspiring board chairman of Chase National Bank. But other great bankers carried great loads...