Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game is to complete the make-up of the newspaper front page so as to gain greatest possible circulation credit. Top story on the printed rating list, which is consulted when all players have "gone to press," is the abdication of Edward VIII: 1,000,000 credits. Bottom story is Hitler's farewell to Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld departing from Germany to marry Holland's Crown Princess : 0 credits. Penalties are exacted for using libelous material; "rewrites" of "scoops" in papers already gone to press; pressagent commercial blurbs. Posing publicly as players of the game...
...found themselves in the same sponge-divers' gang. The work was punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...
...agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there was hope...
...Devil's Playground" is all about how a naval officer marries a no-good woman, punches his best friend on the jaw when he finds him kissing her, decides to let the man suffocate when he sinks to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine, since he alone in all the navy can dive deep enough to rescue him, but goes and fetches him up at the very last minute, when he learns what a wicked siren he is married to. There is no objection to the familiarity of these elements; one might only wish that they were joined...
...from the periodic dismissals which daily go unheralded and stir no comment, unless the teacher involved has a vociferous personal following. But they are questions that affect the University today, for, like any living organism, Harvard cannot continue to flourish unless it draws the best men in at the bottom and keeps them once it has wound its tentacles around them. For the Student Council to tackle these problems shows it is accepting its responsibilities in the College, and the investigation should prove the most important an far-reaching of any of the numerous enquiries which the Council has sponsored...