Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 3 where the electrified young farm gent cut himself on an electric razor. Forward my Congrats. Really I don't see how he did it. It took me six weeks to cut a whisker and I'm not down to the hide yet. I think he got the one meant...
...offense of 100% incorrupt Sir Christopher Bullock was "indiscretion," almost the only offense with which a British Civil Servant is ever charged. In reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...ship. I suddenly saw in the haze 200 yards away the Government destroyer Alcald Galiano. She blazed away with all her forward batteries...
Analyzing sexual maladjustments, adultery and jealousy, homosexuality and bisexuality and other causes of married unhappiness, Dr. Westermarck methodically weighs the alternatives to marriage in free love, companionate marriage, trial marriage, quickly disposes of the "predicted disappearance of marriage" in a brief chapter. He looks forward to more enlightened opinions on sexual conduct, believes that the frequency of divorce is a sign of the strength of marriage rather than of its weakness, anticipates a time when it will be recognized that "sexual acts are morally indifferent and no proper objects for penal legislation if nobody is injured by them...
Last week the nation's steelmen stopped glaring at Labor's John Llewellyn Lewis long enough to take a hurried look forward to the future, a hasty glance back at what they had accomplished in the first six months of the fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner...