Word: dream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sideline to the numbers game has grown up in dream books, which purport to key nightmares to likely digits. The New York Daily Mirror, which is widely read by devotees of the game, has a regular feature cartoon entitled "Pete,'' familiarly known as "Policy Pete." Pete and his friend say nothing about numbers, but innocently and irrelevantly included in the cartoon are two numbers, presumably suggestions for the day's play. Colored pastors often note with regret that after a hymn is announced there is a rustle in the congregation as the number of the hymn...
Victor Luth, a goodhearted, 65-year-old real estate operator, had a painful, recurring dream. "I dream I am hurrying down a street," he told his brother. "No one's ahead of me. But behind me I hear the sound of running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...
...sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when Gregory's union plans fall through he decides to marry Mureth anyway. What Employer Luth's prophetic dream meant, Author Lawrence does not say, lets readers decide for themselves whether his employes are hot on his heels because they are angry at him, or whether he merely thinks so because he is the head man in a general retreat...
Promptly quashed by Federal engineers was the dream of many a delegate that short-wave reception might offer a solution to their hunger for additional radio time. The short-wave bands open to present day receivers are relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston...
...Sunday-school concert. When he was studying law at the University of Western Ontario, he skipped out before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into Eduardo di Giovanni, he cut a wide singing swath through Europe, kept the name until he returned...