Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business looked last week with eagerness at the 32nd annual New York Automobile Show, as usual to be seen in the classic halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. For seven days every manufacturer except Ford, who has always scorned the Show (though he puts his Lincoln in it), demonstrated the innovations his engineers and artists have been able to evolve in the past year with some $100,000,000 for research at their disposal. Basing their prediction on sales at last year's Show, prophets put 1931's probable output of passenger cars, a prime index...
Beginning in the style of Johann Wyss's classic boy's story, Author Morley's yarn purports to be written by a serious-minded, middle-aged little Swiss who leaves his filing clerk's job with the League of Nations to take his wife and two sons on a pleasure cruise in an airliner. Over the Atlantic the airship runs into a frightful storm. Just in time the Robinsons abandon the crippled ship, are whipped away into the night on an air-raft. They come safely to rest on the mooring mast of the Empire State Building, still unfinished, which...
...Harvard family, and since his graduation from college he has upheld Harvard's reputation in the legal profession as his father upheld the University's literary standards," Professor Chafee stated. "His legal writing stands in the first rank, and his book "The Common Law" is one of the classic commentaries on the growth of the legal system, while his collected papers are read by almost every law student in the country...
...volumes of classic authors are prized mostly through their associations with Christopher Gore, and the descendants of his friend Rufus King '76: James Gore King I, of the class of 1810, James Gore King II '39, Edward King '53, and James Gore King III '89. The latter is a New York lawyer, and with the approval of his son, J. G. King Jr. '20, gave the books to Harvard...
...Vaslav Nijinsky was by no means unique in turning from dancing to painting. Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process...