Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college boys return from Paris without the notion of writing a play like Mrs. Mielziner's. Her husband did not design the scene for her show...
...race of scientifically-minded humans, uniformly rich, is seen working one day in four, and flourishing on synthetic foodstuffs. Children will be laboratory-made by ectogenetic methods, leaving governments free to design their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine...
Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...
...story is of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher. Jarnal Harvey, disappointed by sophisticated Frances, retires to his publisher's houseboat in Manhasset Bay. On the way he upsets his rowboat and is salvaged by beauteous Margot. They form a friendship which prospers. Puttering about the Bay, he meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal...
...home ownership, composed of representatives of 19 national organizations under Secretary of Commerce Lament, will, at the President's request, make "a study of the problems presented . . .; with the hope of inspiring better organization and removal of influences which seriously limit the spread of home ownership." Subjects: finance, design, equipment, city planning, transportation. President Hoover wanted to know why second mortgages on homes now often cost 25% per year...