Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the ghostly emanations once thought to hover around dead bodies, posthumous books still give their authors a kind of ghostly currency. So frequent and lively have been the emanations from the late prolific Edgar Wallace that his publishers have had to issue a denial that a ghost was writing them and an admission that more are still to come. But in the case of David Herbert Lawrence these two books are the windup of his literary affairs. Any further remarks from the tomb can hardly affect his reputation one way or the other. Until the critic grave-robbers begin...
Columbia University, a frequent U. S. commemorator, was to have opened a library exhibit of Scottiana, with items loaned by Owen D. Young and John P. Morgan. Because of delay in printing catalogs it was postponed until Oct. 1. But one Scott celebration did come off last week, surprisingly enough in the Hebrew Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, an enterprise designed by the Cleveland Gan Ivri League (Hebrew Garden League, a woman's organization) to include symbolic German, Italian and Polish gardens...
...frequent inquiry is made by people interested in science as to how they can donate their pets to the cause of research. A regular occurrence is the question of what is the correct pronunciation or spelling of some word, such as beret. Once the office was asked whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. It replied in the negative...
With the opening of Russian schools for the autumn term, Soviet pupils face frequent quizzes, periodic examinations and they must obey their teachers. Until now teachers in the Soviet Union have been at the mercy of the "school soviet" (i. e. their pupils...
Pulling at his goatee, last week Roger Ward Babson, who still glories in his reputation for having "called the break in 1929," observed that ''the world is getting better, this country is getting better, and even Chicago is getting better." Asked about specific securities, his most frequent answer was "I am bullish on that." Asserted Ralph Wilson, vice president of Babson's Statistical Organization, "Business has struck bottom...