Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks...
...Cinemaddict Los Angeles school children might already have been udder-conscious after viewing the capacious, undulant udder of the cow in Mickey Mouse films. These were banned last fortnight by Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays (TIME...
...public life who has received a large so-called 'nut' mail is conscious of the high percentage of cranks in our civilization.?Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. Dr. Wilbur is Secretary of Interior, president of Stanford University and chairman of the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and Hospitals. As medical educator he was in Chicago last week for the council's annual meeting with the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Conference on Hospital Service. Chicago was in its usual noisy municipal primary campaign with mayoralty candidates howling obscenities at each other. The doctors began...
...charming woman-about-Europe, secret but conscious hostess of innumerable bacteria, leaves behind her a fantastic trail of death & disease...
...Kelly of New York. Here, shortly before Chicago's famed Valentine Day Massacre of 1929, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone & friends were entertained at a memorable party by a prominent New York Jew and his Chicago countess. Jews, incidentally, are not welcome at the New Colonial Hotel. Less race-conscious is the Fort Montagu, at the eastern end of the town, diagonally opposite Quarantine (where James Simpson of Chicago & friends were once quarantined on a yacht for many days). Like the New Colonial's "Lighthouse" is the Fort Montagu's "Jungle," a place removed from sleepy guests where...