Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Davison joined early but never attends meetings. He has sent busses to convey one district of R. F. A. membership to a picnic on his Pocantico Hills estate, absenting himself the while. Last year, when twelve persons qualified for a badge signifying 25 years of membership, John Davison, who has paid his dues several years in advance, was sent a special Rockefeller coat-of-arms (leaves, rocks, horns of plenty quartered) signifying the sole life-membership...
...Thorshavn, Faroe Islands, Eskimo Otto Knudsen saw his first cinema, went violently cinemad. Several powerful companions had to hold down, strap to a steamer bunk and convey to Copenhagen for treatment Eskimo Otto Knudsen...
...contracts with 24 State institutions to care for young offenders. Declared Dr. Van Waters: "Some jails in the Southern and Southwestern districts are old and unfit. . . . Supervision of inmates is in the hands of trusties. . . . These jails present a situation of filth and misery impossible to convey. . . . The best . . . [reformatory] employs disciplinary measures such as silence at meals, marching, formal routine and flogging; the worst is not to be distinguished from a prison...
...which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance was a caricature and profanation -unintended, of course, but none the less a profanation of great music. There is hardly any music more self-sufficient than Bach's or more beyond the power of words or pictures to convey. It is the purest and most absolute music, altogether sufficient unto itself. It should be held sacred from meddling. . . . There should be limits to a practice by which dancers, who apparently are without feeling for the true essence of music, may rush in where angels would fear to tread...
Brass Ankle. It takes a Southerner to convey adequately the potential horror and tragedy that lurk in the sociological backwaters of the Deep South. The cruelty of middle-class white "crackers" has been deftly transferred to book form by William Faulkner (Sanctuary), a reconstructed Southerner (TIME, Feb. 16). Further aspects of it are now to be seen in this grim play by DuBose Heyward of Charleston, S. C., author of the book whence came all-Negro Porgy three years...