Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a regrettable lack of familiarity with the Facts of Life. Hence the compulsory course in sex-hygiene, which in its present vague character amounts to little more than a useless drain of a first-year man's time. The lectures give a mere smattering of elementary physiology and deep-breathing; and only a few of them are actually concerned with sex hygiene...
...Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley went to New York for the weekend and into a deep huddle with Boss Flynn. A laconic announcement from Washington that "the President is giving no approval to any local candidate in any state," by no means allayed Boss Curry's and Fusionist La Guardia's apprehension that their contest might become three-cornered, dominated by a Flynn-Farley...
...flashed: '"Most immense tragedy. Impossible to imagine extent. Those parts of city not destroyed by wind now ten to fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains could reach the striken city. Meanwhile planes roared out loaded deep with medicines and supplies, and Tampico citizens stolidly fished in the ruins, laying their dead in stiff and silent rows...
...passing of Ring Lardner stills another beloved but misunderstood voice. Mr. Lardner, like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips...
...coffee-&-cognac topic. Purchase of industrial stocks is, of course, the most popular hedge, but commodities and land have been creeping up fast since the NRA threatened profits with higher labor costs. Some shrewd businessmen with little capital at stake argue that the best thing is to go as deep into debt as the banks (or friends) will allow; eventually they will pay off with cheaper dollars. Carl Sriyder, economist for the Federal Reserve Board, was asked lately by a wealthy friend how he could hedge against all possible contingencies, including deflation or stabilization, so that he would...