Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest lips reproach the admirers of Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson for the cheer they sent up when one declared of the other: ''He was a great gentleman. He was a great commoner. The two are not incompatible...
...Chicago's Century of Progress, which was five years in the making, and to New York's 1939 World's Fair, for which ground was broken on the Flushing, L. I., meadows last week, Clevelanders boasted that their Exposition had taken just So days to build, that every nail was in place for the opening. Supposedly the Exposition centered around the Romance of Iron & Steel, theme selected to typify the eight Great Lakes States...
...purpose all four organizations are similar. Rotary's original motto was "Service before Self." To this was later added: "He profits most who serves best." Kiwanians say: "We build." Lions hold to "Liberty: Intelligence: The Nation's Safety." Civitans are "builders of good citizenship." Individual clubs admit one member of each profession or business classification in the community, except Kiwanis, which admits two. Civitans restrict membership to "white Caucasians," will take as many ministers as apply...
...from a onetime employe, made and lost a second fortune in a chain called "Clarence Saunders- Sole Owner of My Name." In 1931 he popped up in Memphis with a jazz band opening for still another merchandising venture. Boasted he: "You'll see yet that I'll build up the biggest industry in the world." That enterprise soon folded and Storeman Saunders, took over the "world rights" to a cleaning fluid called "Evernew," announced he had "thoroughly investigated the cleanser and found it to be the best on the market." "Evernew" also had a sorry ending. Its sponsor...
...fashioned, romantic narrative with no Joycean or Proustian nonsense about it, the novel is written in a methodical style which fastidious readers may find wearying. But so carefully does Author Mitchell build up her central character of Scarlett O'Hara, and her picture of the times in which that wild woman struggled, that artistic lapses seem scarcely more consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty...