Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a dip inside the gates of about four feet behind the southwestern corner of Widener Library. On the Massachusetts Avenue side at this point the first floor of the dormitories is on the street level, but thirty feet away, on the other side of the building, the bottom of a door to an entry is three feet below the ground. This uneveness will be corrected throughout, with enough extra grading to allow for a step and threshold to each entry. Where the doors are above the ground will be filled in to allow for an equal number...
...oldfashioned hypocrite), one murder (of a homosexual husband), no arrests, and no solution in sight. Perhaps not meant to be acted, the play mulls over many an idea. Central theme: that the greatest calamity in history was not the late great War but an earlier, unperceived event, when "the bottom dropped out of things . . . when the last straw broke the back of reality, when the one unnecessary person too many was born, when population finally became unmanageable, when the proper people were finally swamped. Once they counted; now they no longer count...
Four men who hope some day to flit from planet to planet in rocket planes were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society...
Private Lives. This is one of the crispest comedies that has come to Broadway for many a season. Perfectly acted by svelte Gertrude Lawrence, who has a fetching way of closing her eyes from the bottom when smiling, and deft Noel Coward, author and producer of the piece, it relates the adventures of a divorced couple who find themselves occupying adjoining suites and terraces at a French hotel on the first night of their separate new honeymoons. With the merriest of dialog they tenderly reunite, after quarreling with their respective new wife and husband...
...Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave him, so the people could see what he looks like, I could elect...