Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken: The talk about the "brain trust" is all blather. It always was. People have always wanted brains in their rulers, when they could find them. It is not the brain trust that was the bugaboo. It is youth. What frightened Dr. Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks...
Much has been written and more said about that most annoying of the University's pet rules and regulations, devised to poster students in general, land impractical students in particular, that bugaboo of bugaboos, the Science requirement...
According to Nobel Laureate Millikan "technological unemployment'' was a bugaboo easily driven to cover by census figures: in 1880 34% of the U. S. population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...
...part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone's surprise the young Texan won it. Soon...
...Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year's bugaboo. A local manager would engage an artist and then be unable to sell enough seats to meet the fee. So far this season there have been practically no cancellations...