Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three Roman Catholic families in the district to send their children to his Sunday School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly on all his 700 parishioners, preaches three times every Sunday. Says he: ''On the side roads, one has to walk in the winter time. . . . West Fairlee is a lovely village...
Died. Dr. John George Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master...
...teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school idea...
...summer sessions, Senate committees will dig into: 1) Indian conditions; 2) post office leases; 3) wild life; 4) the Alaska Railroad; 5) commercial relations with China; 6) the Farm Board; 7) air and ocean mail subsidies; 8) the failure of retail wheat, meat and sugar prices to drop with commodity prices; 9) stock exchange practices; 10) the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation; 11) the effect of depressed foreign currency values on imports; 12) the Department of Justice's handling of Cleveland's Union Mortgage Co. case; 13) water resources of the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Kern Rivers; 14) rents...
Make Me a Star (Paramount). In the current deluge of pictures about Hollywood, someone had the good sense to dig up Harry Leon Wilson's old story, Merton of the Movies. As a play by Marc Connelly & George Kaufman it was the classic of its genre. Now as a talking cinema, under a new title to deceive cinemaddicts who saw it as a silent picture and might not want to see it again, it is still superb entertainment...