Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human-as human as people.'' Also much to her liking as subjects are the lovely bowls, beautiful pieces of glassware, the exquisite Ming pottery which she collects. From soft sofas she toys with romantic notions of Greenwich Village inspiration, clinging to the belief that art is born in discontent. "It seems to me," Artist Lasky has been quoted, ''that I could paint better, write better poetry, if I had to struggle to do it." To which Hollywood Producer Lasky replies: ''Don't kid yourself, little girl...
Chosen to give the lectures was Wisconsin-born Professor Sumner Huber Slichter, who at 45 commands respect from conservatives and liberals alike for his economic sagacity. In muddy shoes and a weather-stained suit, he lectures with his thick white pompadour and craggy nose bent over his desk, seems surprised when he looks up to find students present. Between classes he rushes back to his office to dictate one of the half-dozen reports, books or articles on which he works at once. Over the fireplace in his Morgan Hall office is a gaudy poster proclaiming: "Vote American Labor Party...
...Many a C.I.O. union has recently established an educational department, which not only teaches workers Labor history but trains them in collective bargaining strategy, psychology, public speaking, influencing public opinion. Largest and oldest of such programs is that of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, directed by astute, British-born Mark Starr, which has 20,000 workers enrolled in courses. New Labor courses have been started for auto, rubber, transport workers, and WPA Workers Education Project is explaining Labor's problems to 50,000 students in 20 States...
...still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes...
...during 'several hours of the infants, whose lungs on post-mortem examination were found to be absolutely unstraightened." Special significance of this: if an X-ray of a newborn infant shows air in the stomach or bowels, then no matter if the lungs lack air, that infant was born alive...