Word: gist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind every refusal lay suspicion that the real purpose of the conference was to raise the Blue Eagle's ghost, put new flesh & feathers on it. Gist of each declination: "We are recovering nicely by ourselves. All we ask the Government to do is to leave us alone." Attributing objections to "a bad case of NRA jitters," Coordinator Berry announced on the party's eve that acceptances of his 5,200 invitations were running about 99% for Labor, 70% for Industry. Unemployment and taxation, he thought, would be the chief subjects of discussion. Coordinator Berry was primed...
...publicity. And the volume of such litigation, to the medical profession's .alarm, constantly increases. In Clinical Medicine & Surgery last week Dr. Isador Simon Trostler, Chicago roentgenologist, trotted out a few fundamental rules which, if scrupulously observed by doctors, he thought, might stem the tide of malpractice suits. Gist of his advice: ¶Never under any circumstances promise a cure or use language which might be construed as such a promise...
...Nobody will give Perry a run." Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., who thus expressed last month the gist of expert opinion on the U. S. Singles Championship, flatly contradicted himself at Forest Hills, N. Y. last week. When Allison and Fred Perry, world's No. 1 amateur tennist for the past two years, started to rally before their match in the semifinals, the crowd dubiously hoped that Allison would be able to do as well as he had a year ago, when he carried Perry to five sets. No one expected him to do more. When they left...
...Fourth of July at the State Department, plodding Secretary Cordell Hull said that he had received a flash from the U. S. acting Chargé d'Affaires at Addis Ababa giving the gist of the Emperor's appeal but that the U. S. Government obviously could not act before the full five-page text of His Imperial Majesty's communication was received. Next afternoon President Roosevelt, having glanced at the flash, delivered what admiring Idaho Senator Pope later called "a masterpiece of diplomacy." Around 4 p. m. correspondents found the President in one of his most elated...
...Lillian Gist finished her course at Illinois' Women's College (now MacMurray) as a "mistress of the liberal arts" in 1875. Last year, eleven years after her preacher-professor husband's death, she settled down at Claremont to get a modern master's degree. She has not missed a single session of her six philosophy and classics seminars, has typed a 25,000-word thesis on "Lucretius as a Poet of Nature'' since Christmas. Spry, tiny, bespectacled, she is mother of eleven, grandmother of eleven, great-grandmother of three. She plans to take...