Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Artist Soglow, 33, bought a farm at Ossining, N. Y., where he spends his spare time playing croquet. Tiny, he has a tiny wife named Ann, a tiny daughter named Tono. Not exclusively a smartchart illustrator, he is a political pink, has contributed many a socially-conscious drawing to the radical New Masses...
...because they slow up traffic." Last week Leader Hitler was reported to be so favorably impressed by Admiral von Levetzow's reforms that he had made them the basis for a new State Traffic Code, effective Oct. 1, to "unify traffic regulations throughout Germany." To make the Fatherland traffic-conscious in advance of the new decree, thundering presses produced truckloads of pamphlets entitled Directions for Pedestrians...
Mary, being the daughter of a chauffeur and a lady's maid, was class-conscious from her youth up. Orphaned, god-mothered by a real lady, she had the laudable ambition of bettering herself. She got a job in London at a fashionable dress shop, counted her pennies, cultivated her tongue, studied shorthand and typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth...
...around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders" and whose sworn purpose is to make the world "commodity conscious." Nothing much ever happens marketwise in either black or white pepper and nothing at all in shellac since the Japanese cornered the market in 1924. Shellac sold as low as $9.15 per cwt. during the Depression, is now $28.80 but the shrewd men from Mincing Lane cannot forget that shellac...
...born until after the Titanic went down one April night in 1912. To him the War is history, not a personal memory. He has lived all his conscious life in a post-War world. He was playing hide & seek during the age of Flaming Youth. When he was in high school the Crash came and that was something real enough to make a mark upon him. It cut his allowance and put a furrow in his father's brow. He heard talk of hard times and an uncertain future. He saw breadlines. And worst of all, as his time...