Word: formative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simultaneous expression of a crying necessity by two men so well qualified to discover what is wrong with representative government make it imperative that the whole format be altered. Bold-face headlines by Hearst, brilliant quips by the staff of Time and of the New Yorker, light talks by Bruce Barton, and sketches by Peter Arno would all help put the "Record" on the newsstands. And finally a Dorothy Dix column would minister to the heart of gold that beats beneath the rough senatorial exterior...
...University of St. Andrews: Professor Theophile J. Meek of the University of Toronto; Professor Leroy Waterman of the University of Michigan; Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (New Testament) of Chicago. Printed at University of Chicago Press ($3.50). * John A. Dickson Publishing Co., Chicago: $7.75 to $18.75, depending upon format...
...face of Mr. Hale's shameful desertion, is making what promises to be a successful appeal for her former prestige. "The Old Lady in Brown" has bobbed her hair, enlisted the services of a typographical Patou in beautifying her person and has appeared in a brand new and handsome format. In addition to this the editorial content of the issue evidences a vitality and sanity which will make "The Hoot" look to its bays and laurels. The New York Herald-Tribune
...reviewer were those from Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," but the favorites will probably vary with each individual reader. It is not a book to be read at a sitting but one from which choice bits can be culled at the reader's leisure. The format and cuts are more than ordinarily attractive, and taken all in all the book impresses me as one that will stand the test of time, at least with those who have made its acquaintance...
Fresh from the presses was a handsome, claret-colored volume called Wine Making For The Amateur by Professor Rose. It is privately issued by the Bacchus Club*Its format was designed by Carl Purington Rollins, head of the Yale University Press...