Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi had set out for Lancashire to drive a bargain by which he thought both sides would gain-but would hungry, workless Lancashire understand? Was the 76-lb. Mahatma's life safe? Scotland Yard sent with him four detectives (each over 200 lb.), just in case. Darwen, black focus of Lancashire depression, was Inspector Gandhi's objective, but Scotland Yard bundled him off his train at nearby Springvale Village. There the Mahatma slept safely, with a local constable stationed every 50 yards on all approaching roads. In Darwen next day the well-guarded Mahatma was both booed ("Tear...
...also connected with the circus in some undefined and probably undefinable capacity. When he shells peas, they bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept. 14). Butterworth wore a colonial costume which made him look like George Arliss slightly out of focus. In this picture, he wears a derby hat which is less becoming. Good shots: Butterworth voicing his absurd hunger for "a nice bowl of tapioca"; then falling into a small, shallow tank from a 110 ft. tower ; the proprietor going to bed drunk...
...simplifier is hard. Simplicist Sherwood Anderson has been puzzling his head for years over the U. S. scene. In short stories, novels and autobiography he has struggled to focus what he sees into genuine art; occasionally he has succeeded. Lately he has taken to visiting factories, watching with his trou bled stare the unselfconscious machines, the unquestioning workers. Perhaps Women, a fragmentary notebook, is the result of these brooding visitations. Not the arguable art of economics but human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with...
...woebegone author, he states the story's theme: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Later he makes soberly improper advances to a maidservant, meanders about at a fancy dress party in a Colonial costume and a wig which makes him look like George Arliss out of focus...
Last fortnight Governor Roosevelt sought to bring his national issue into sharper focus by taking an early poke at President Hoover. Though he failed to draw the President out into a pre-campaign controversy on water power, he did succeed in winning a small tactical advantage in New York State, thanks to White House bungling of the correspondence...