Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is plowing under to be done, let the press agents, free-publicity-seekers, propagandists and demagogues be the first to be put under...
After the hour or so of free time which follows every Malvern meal, the day continued with more meditation, individual conferences, the Stations of the Cross, spiritual reading, prayers, beads, confession, finally Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Spiritual climax of the retreat came the second night, when each retreatant was permitted 15 minutes of private Adoration of the Sacrament. To a Catholic, the ineffable privilege of kneeling alone near the Consecrated Host- usually impossible in a crowded city church-is equivalent to kneeling alone close to God. Men of Malvern, prizing the still hours of early morning, last week drew...
...Antonio Longoria attended Spanish schools, got a degree in engineering and a doctorate in medicine. In 1911 he arrived in the U. S., fonder of tinkering with machines than with people. Settling in Cleveland, he married, fathered three children, became president of Sterling Electrical Co. Now he is a free-lance consultant and inventor, has a small laboratory in his apartment. Dr. Longoria does not believe that showmanship does an inventor any harm...
Less roomy than Pullmans, the new sleepers have a great advantage in price. A Chicago-New York lower berth Pullman ride costs $33.25. In the bus it costs $20.25-and all meals are free. At present limited to this run, which they make in 26 hr., the new sleepers will go on a transcontinental schedule as soon as more are built...
...idea of studying architecture. Instead, he enlisted in a French ambulance service, transferred to the A. E. F. as a private in the Medical Corps. He wrote his first book (One Man's Initiation), a story based on his war experience, published in England. As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected in The 42nd Parallel, his literary reputation was solidly...