Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which was published by the rime Publishing Company, 237 Broadway, New York. The outside front cover has a cupid with wings, peaked hat, sandals and bludgeon. The youngster holds a large scythe which is attached or else about to cut a string which leads to the earth's globe. The slogan appearing below this illustration reads, "Folly shall not go dully by U. S.-Shakespeare...
...city will purchase another before the building is ready... If the football gate receipts in the Stadium hit a new high, Harvard, according to rumors, may play the role of proud parent and give one to the city. That, of course, has to be 'Hushed' just now." ......Boston Globe, copied by Cambridge Tribune...
Amarillo, Tex. is the cow & oil town which gained national notice when Gene Howe, crusty editor of its Globe-News, accused Colonel Lindbergh of snubbing it and called Mary Garden "tottering" (TIME, June n, 1928, April 1, 1929). Last week Amarillo was of interest to the U. S. Roman Catholic hierarchy. To it went scores of priests, monsignori and bishops, among them Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, new Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., and Most Rev. Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, exiled Apostolic Delegate to Mexico. In Amarillo they made processions, held solemn ceremonies in the Cathedral, all in honor...
...merge their Far Eastern properties into a single jointly-owned subsidiary. Although in volume Europe is the best U. S. oil customer, rivalry in the East is much more intense, always more colorful. As everyone knows, one-half the world's people squat on that portion of the globe that lies between Karachi and Harbin. And all oilmen know that one more gallon of kerosene each year for each & every Hindu, Siamese, Chinese and Japanese would lift sales to figures fantastic. Thus there is always desultory scrimmaging between the big oil companies. It broke into open warfare...
That was in 1903, and for 20 years P. G. Wodehouse has been quite as well known in Collier's, Satevepost, Liberty and American Magazine as in the London Globe and Strand Magazine. He used to tear off hundreds of short stories a year, but now confines himself to seven or eight, with one or two full-length ones on the side. He "taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom...