Word: feather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger. There is some simple, tuneful music, and there isn't much sentimentality. Above all there is a refreshing sincerity about the whole thing. All in all it makes for ideal feather-weight entertainment...
That President Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...
...revealing as either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star biographer, Director William Dieterle, Juárez is a bright new feather in an already well-decorated...
...question: Since "Senator Bob Reynolds . . . wears a feather in his hat to show that he is against all isms but Americanism" (TIME, Feb. 27, p. 20), could TIME'S persuasive editors induce the Senator to tell through its columns what Americanism...
Diplomats, nobles, ecclesiastics, ex-royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne), garbed in a vast white cope...