Word: gold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type by playing the part of a hard-boiled-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, is the principal recommendation, although one wishes that he would occasionally lower his voice...
...York tugboat strike, the Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron saint of travelers. In his own words" "I looked at his kindly face and asked: 'Shall I do it?" and it seemed the saint smiled at me and replied: 'Carry on old man, and you'll do it,' and I did." Whereupon the Commodore proceeded to defy...
...frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic survey of the century-the Civil War in 7.000 plates. No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples : a covered-wagon caravan forming...
...order for 18 of Brother Charles's picture frames enabled the Prendergast brothers to move to a studio on Manhattan's Washington Square. Charles gradually became known for decorative panels inlaid with silver and gold leaf, of which last week the Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke...
...chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities the great chemical firm has in the mysterious investment portfolio, which in the happy days of 1929 used to be regarded by speculators as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow...