Word: crispness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Corra Harris, 65, author (A Circuit Rider's Wife, My Book and Heart); of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Crisp, optimistic Mrs. Harris taught a course in "Evil" at Rollins College in 1930 (TIME...
...Java with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...
...Quite naturally you missed it, for I believe I am the single custodian of a visual memory of the event I have in mind. It was on a winter day back in 1908. Late in the afternoon I crossed Pennsylvania Avenue at Twelfth Street. Not only was the air crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious...
...Premier faced the Chamber with a crisp, dynamic program speech: "The world is suffering from too much controlled economy....I ask union for action and action in union!...Stability of the franc must be maintained and interest rates lowered....Restricted economic regimes have failed everywhere. France must have organized, controlled and defended Liberty to remedy the evils of unemployment, poor sales and slack business...
...dirty. That Georges Mandel accepted last week the obscure post of Minister of Communications was characteristic. Any other portfolio would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck a note of concentration upon economic issues, a note of youth in France, where aged statesmen love to play that politics is pure politics-to them, an art. Said Premier Flandin...