Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...
...opened the box and began drawing out sheaves of paper. There was Neville Chamberlain, who used to have the amiable boomtime duty of announcing surpluses. There was Winston Churchill, who in the years 1924-29 would accompany his budget demands with thumping gestures. And, tiny in his corner of the Liberal bench, sat snowy-haired David Lloyd George, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1909 introduced his epoch-making "war-against-poverty" budget. That was the budget that pitted the House of Commons against the House of Lords in a two-year struggle for power-a struggle which ended...
Busy people drop in at country-clubs, bridge-teas or corner saloons in hope of finding relaxation and entertainment. When busy men and women pick up general magazines they do so for much the same reasons. Editors of these magazines try to sell the public their own private blend of diverting stories, entertaining skits and topically informative articles. And most of them feel that the recipe is bettered by the addition of discreet dashes of something more unconventional, personal, exciting-verse...
...seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...
Last week in London talent and adman alike twiddled, hoped that once war got in the groove, radio might again be able to sing for its supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...