Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anvil chorus when the workshop of the gnomes is operating at capacity, so one who has seen an ordinary kitchen has no idea of what the operations will be in such a kitchen as that newly erected in Chicago. To get the full picture in advance, one must go to Camden, see the manicurist who inspects the fingernails of 4,000 workers, see the herds of living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart, see the 50 women who do what...
Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...
Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind...
...city adolescents a dance hall, by any name, is a place to go and have fun, often the only place...
Cross-Country Refueling. "I am tired now, Art is tired, we haven't shaved since we left Spokane, our clothes are soiled and greasy, our ears are humming, so I guess we'll go home. My wife and my baby Patricia are waiting for me, and Art's mother is waiting for him." So read Lieut, Nick B. Mamer's report to North American Newspaper Alliance of the 115-hour cross-country refueling flight which he and Pilot Art Walker made last fortnight in the Buhl biplane Sun God (TIME...