Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family," call the superior "Good Mother." Many a home is now in a dither of pious excitement. With no regard for calendar dates, the Little Sisters have been celebrating their centenary. The mother house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little Sisters in August. In Detroit, where...
...sundown last week, Kol Nidre, the mournful prayer-hymn in which good Jews ask God to release them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen...
Honeymoon in Bali (Paramount) is one of those over-jaunty comedies that have too good a time the first part of the evening, suddenly begin to stagger around, then fold up for the night. The rest is hangover...
Last fortnight the Lancet confidently asserted that British nerves were now strong enough and British planes good enough to make drink unnecessary. "During the war of 1914-1918," said the editor, "heavy drinking became almost a convention among flying men, and this convention lingered afterwards. It had arisen at a time when the inferiority of our machines compared with those of the enemy was felt to justify an infusion of Dutch courage, but now that its underlying cause has been removed it exists no longer...
...instead of an increase in U. S. buying (which had gone up steadily since 1934), there was a heavy decrease. Japanese sales to Sears, Roebuck fell off 70%, sales to five-and-ten chains dropped, sales of silk and Japanese textiles tumbled. With a good start, Japan's sales to the U. S. at the end of 1937 hit $204,201,000, and from the U. S. it bought $288,558.-ooo. But by the end of 1938 sales to the U. S. dropped to $126.820,000, purchases in the U. S. dropped to $239,620,000 and Japanese...