Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's Dr. Norman Haire, copresident of the World League for Sexual Reform, in Manhattan: "Father Coughlin doesn't care how much the children suffer on earth, so long as they are prepared to pick up their little harps and sing Hallelujah...
Hearty is David Sarnoff's dislike for Horatioalgerian accounts of his 42 years upon earth. To inquisitive reporters the chunky, bustling president of Radio Corp. of America always hands out three mimeographed sheets listing in chronological order all his important dates, including his appointments in the U. S. Signal Corps, in which he now is a reserve colonel. Some Sarnoff dates...
...renting agents became proverbial. But not until last week did any real estate man publicly voice his opinion of the Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also found his fortune beneath the earth (zinc) and also ploughed a large part of it into midtown Manhattan. Pink-cheeked little August Heckscher put his protest in the form of a $10,000,000 suit against Rockefeller Center Corp., its officers, directors, backers and builders...
...which are supposed to exist far out in space. His proof of this is that there have been discovered particles of solid matter, or "cosmic meteors," which are moving through space at high speed. They are far out of the paths of the meteors that are visible from the earth...
...genuine whiskey, with a character all its own. The type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire; but it does not have burn of straight alcohol; there is an aroma, a purging afterglow, and a solid, settled feeling which delves down to the soles of one's feet, which...