Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...
...gathering labor statistics. The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many jobless...
...Yourself (United Artists). Far more conscious of her limitations than most actresses in or out of pictures, Fannie Brice demands certain uniform qualities of all stories suggested as vehicles for her. She must play the part of a homely girl; she must have a chance to clown, and sing her songs; she must be disappointed in love. Be Yourself, which deals with the lighter aspects of the prizefight business, fulfills all these conditions fairly well and at the same time establishes a fact which may be useful to Miss Brice when she chooses her next picture ? its burlesque...
...horrible confession, that. And one--which even a hardened offender like the Vagabond would scarcely mention in private did his conscious not bind him to expose the false teachings of a nefarious publication. In its day this Mount Auburn Street magazine has caused many a scandal for one reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
Author Evelyn Waugh, very conscious member of the post-War generation, writes so brightly, wittily, entertainingly that you may swallow this sugar pill of a novel almost without tasting its bitter centre...