Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exchange's oldest member in point of seniority (56 years), had been on its governing committee longer than any other man (37 years), was one of its few authors (The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 and The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function). Author Noble blames depression on wars, says that to blame speculators and the Exchange is to reason "that when a barometer falls it creates and precipitates the ensuing storm. . . ." Since 1935 he has retired from most Wall Street activities except lunching, has read Greek mythology and European newspapers, listened to music, cruised...
Ruling No. 1 in BULLETIN 263 of New Jersey's A. B. C. (Alcoholic Beverage Control): Bartender-a professional policeman with a flair for mixing may be a bartender at a social function if he strictly maintains his amateur standing...
...Stanford White, all this would have been no particular commendation of Albert Kahn as an architect. But young architects today have heard and understood Le Corbusier's definition of a house as a "machine for living," Frank Lloyd Wright's statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August...
Directors in general wear shabby looking work clothes, function mostly on sets or stages instead of offices, think more about getting money than about spending it, and are primarily concerned with cinema as a craft, not a business. Once the story is picked and the cast hired, the director is in sole charge until, cutting finished, the picture goes on view. A director's function is primarily that of a highschool, dramatic coach, raised to a fabulous power of complexity. He tells $5,000-a-week stars where to stand and how to speak, screenwriters with millionaires' incomes...
...addition to its own intense egocentricity, Hollywood's concern with show business is obviously prompted by the necessity for showing off personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this...