Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gridiron squad has already hung up its moleskins for good, and its last act will be to elect the 1940 leader. This afternoon at 3 o'clock 22 lettermen meet in Dillon Field House and cast their ballots to find a successor to ill-fated Torbie Macdonald...
...recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...
...beauty is that if one glove is lost, a neuter single can be bought for mating because any glove can be worn on either hand. Die cut, it requires less labor to manufacture than an ordinary glove, but uses up 100% more goods. Priced cheaply, it might find a market with thrifty souls who lose an estimated million single gloves a year. Mark Cross priced it at $1.50 to $3.25 per glove (sold singly...
When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid...
...leaders-Lee, Jeb Stuart, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson-not Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page) makes these forgotten statesmen the biographical find of the year. Individually picturesque, they made still more picturesque diplomatic history. And Author Hendrick gives them a large share of credit for losing the War. If that Yankee judgment seems harsh, what many a Southerner thinks of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet is not fit to print...