Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-year-old boy, dressed up like a minister. No masquerading moppet but a real ordained parson, the Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...
...Bryn Mawr's maple-shaded campus last week gathered a clothing worker and a shoe worker from England, an automobile worker from Kansas City, a rubber worker from Akron-65 working girls all told. Their clothes did not come from Fifth Avenue nor their manners from a finishing school, but for seven weeks they will enjoy the luxury of Bryn Mawr's capitalistic dormitories, swimming pool, tennis courts and learning. They are students in the college's Summer School for Women Workers, which last week began its 18th year...
...brilliant late president, Miss M. Carey Thomas. Since then similar schools have been opened at University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, in Berkeley, Calif, and in Chicago. They are now associated with the Affiliated Schools for Workers. Bryn Mawr supplies buildings and helps plan the summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships, $250 for each girl. A committee scouts the country for likely students of 20 to 35, for whom the only requirements are a sixth-grade education, three years' working...
...Barleycorn in barrels, at the last moment added top hats and spats and called themselves Economic Royalists. A HARVARD MAN, said one of their signs, DID THIS TO US. Not to be outdone by their elders, Harvard's graduating seniors marched into the stadium chanting: "Breadline, here we come...
...favorite thesis of Franklin Roosevelt (a thesis also of his severe critic General Hugh Johnson), is that steel prices have been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter...