Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair...
...Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples of Benjamin Harrison architecture in Washington, his car kept on across 12th Street and came to a stop before a new building with classic white marble columns. "General" Farley was moving into the new $8,500,000 home of his Department. A fair home it was, not so ostentatious as the $17,500.000 Department of Commerce building, but unique in its way. Never have more than 50 newshawks appeared at one of Mr. Farley...
...DeCasseres has a perfectly good reason to object to Herr Hanfstaengl, but he conceals it under an absurd cover. We suggest that he re-read his Spinoza (which, we note, is one of his interests). That classic moralist would have frankly stated his real objection. SCIO
What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey...
...races not sanctioned by the A. A. A. may earn as much as $4,000 a year. Drivers good enough to get regular backing in such important races as those at Indianapolis, Oakland, Detroit and Syracuse, may earn up to $15,000 a year in prizes. Winning the Indianapolis Classic often means a job with a manufacturer. Tommy Milton, who won in 1921 and 1923, is on Packard's engineering staff. Billy Arnold, who won in 1930, is with Chrysler. Famed Ralph De Palma is doing sales promotion for Ford...