Word: contente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex circus of 17 rings labeled from Anthropology to Zoology. Just as regularly at the end of each school year, at a time when scholars head for vacations. A.A.A.S. corrals as many as possible for a summer meeting. Then, however, A.A.A.S. wisely avoids a single big show, is content with one modest meeting somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains, another modest meeting somewhere along the Pacific Coast. Last week the Pacific division of A.A.A.S., with its collective mind primarily on Earth and its quakes, met in Los Angeles. Simultaneously the major body of A.A.A.S., with its collective mind primarily...
...content with all these sacrifices . . . France will . . . call upon our workers to again rally to her economic relief by giving up their own jobs and going on relief payrolls that the lace-makers of Calais and Caudry may be happily employed...
...Minneapolis. If the Cowles boys were less ambitious they might easily have been content to remain the No. 1 publishers in Iowa for the rest of their lives. Their Register & Tribune has paid dividends for 30 years to its 60 stockholders, almost all of whom are active workers on the newspapers. And their riches would doubtless multiply. But the Brothers Cowles began to have other ideas three years ago when they decided to expand. Sharing their plans was Brother John's good Harvard friend Davis Merwin, who in Bloomington, Ill. was running his family's 99-year...
...Miami Biltmore Hotel last January two masked men stripped Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell, onetime Follies dancer, of jewels insured at $185,000, took watch and cash from her companion Harry Content, 74-year-old Manhattan broker. Two petty thieves were shortly picked up, charged with the crime. For lack of identification one was let off. The other was given a short penitentiary sentence. Meantime Miami's chief of detectives turned up with the jewels, announcing that someone had obligingly tossed them into his automobile...
Critics of Author Caldwell who had begun to think that his zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...