Word: bose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, 79, Hindu physicist and botanist; of a heart attack; at Giridih, India. Famed for his assertion that plants have hearts, nerves, emotions, intellections, he demonstrated by experiment that every stimulus-light, electric shock, alcohol, drugs-affects plants as well as animals...
LOST MORNING-Du Bose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Skillfully-constructed, smoothly-written novel about an artist whose success turns sour under the pressure of difficulties with his wife, his daughter, the small fashionable Southern city where he lives...
...prevented from printing a word about what was going on. No Cabinet Minister seemed to be trusted for the offices of all were occupied by Secret Police and S. S. Storm Troops who shot an aide of Vice Chancellor von Papen as they swept in. This aide, Herr von Bose, was officially reported a suicide until it could no longer be concealed that his death was due to six bullets. With rumors crackling that the Vice Chancellor himself had been killed correspondents rushed to his home where he was said to be in "protective custody." S. S. Storm Troops guarded...
...Southern Methodist bishops henceforth for stated terms, instead of for life with retirement mandatory only on account of age (72) or infirmity. Also there are vacancies in the Methodist episcopacy: two because of death and three because of the pending retirement of three well-beloved prelates, Horace Mellard Du Bose, 75, of Nashville; Collins Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would the conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would...
Here is a clever, biting political satire born of the nimble brain and acid wit of Walter Hasenclaver, "der bose bub" of German dramatists since the passing of the terrible Widekind, staged all over Europe as an example of Hasenclaver "boseheit," adapted as a piece of Soviet propaganda by the People's Commisar of Education at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and now staged for the first time in this country by the Harvard Dramatic Club on the basis of a fresh literal translation from the German text as the forty-third production of the society...