Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dying cats. The impression is not the right one, for the articles are built carefully out of facts presented coolly. "Steeplejack" thinks that an undergraduate's best training for future worth is in taking something be knows, namely the score on college as it is, and examining it with candid vitality and solid control. Constant humorous recriminations in "The Dartmouth," campus daily, suggest that this policy gets under the skin. Or maybe it is not so much our intention as its effect that troubles people...
...annuities running until 1984. The lump sum Sir Frederick reputedly has in mind is $1,000,000,000. If he finds that Wall Street cannot float so large a bond issue, the lump may have to be smaller. "The best solution, of course," correspondents were told by a candid Exchequer functionary, "would be cancellation of the entire debt...
...novel, thousands of adolescent readers found him excitingly like themselves. Sometime practicer of "free love," an editor of the old Masses, a pillar of the Provincetown Players, Floyd Dell used to seem the embodiment of intellectually flaming youth. Times have changed, but not Floyd Dell, 46. In this confidentially candid autobiography, Mooncalf Dell looks back on his generation's brief blooming, feels that it is good to be settled down. Admitting that he is wiser than he was, he says: "I can face the boy of 18 that I once was, without shame. I have gained the courage...
...initials P.R.B. Gradually the secret leaked (or was given) out: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was arming for Art's sake, preparing to rescue her from her official keepers. They called themselves Pre-Raphaelites because they believed that not since Raphael's day had sincerity and art been candid friends. Most promising painter of the group was facile John Everett Millais; most agonizingly honest, William Holman Hunt; but the most dynamic personality and the acknowledged leader was one Charles Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...Like Candid Cameraman Erich Salomon, Photographer Lohse has no secret technique, depends on snapping well-composed pictures, developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...