Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the contemporary song hits most widely sung by British troops were far from martial. Besides Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho (TIME, Sept. 25) they were: 1) the Beer Barrel Polka; 2) Little Sir Echo, current U. S. hit, a favorite song of U. S. Campfire Girls; 3) South of the Border, with its nostalgic refrain...
Underground but far from dormant is art in wartime London. Fortnight ago the Stafford Gallery, in a basement hardly a bomb's throw from St. James's Palace, opened the first important art show seen in London since the war began. Head of the Stafford Gallery is high-strung, capable Mrs. Ala Story. Keystone of her plan, a British Art Centre...
Landing in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient, the venerable Roger Babson had something to say to the press. Mr. Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...
...impeccable Grover Aloysius Whalen last week tiptoed around the edges of the battlegrounds of Europe, drumming up trade for the 1940 edition of his World of Tomorrow. From Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign pavilions now stand...
...title of his book, has no such jamboree in mind. Even Marxists may concede that the body of their belief, with all its nobility of purpose, its elaborate doctrine, its often tragic record in action, has rarely undergone such delicate surgery. For the argument of this book goes far deeper than any current disillusionment with a "discredited" Communism...