Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings which house these exhibits, some of which are almost complete fairs in themselves, are for the most part individually homely. In mass, however, they are peculiarly stimulating. The bright colors and bizarre shapes are gay, the blank walls excellent frames for frequent murals, some good and many not so good. The planning is superb, the lighting exceedingly effective. The overwhelming impression is of incredible, lavish bigness...
...President." Grover Whalen is popularly supposed to be nothing but a good front man. He is that, but he is also an overwhelming executive. He has dominated the career of the fair just as completely as the trylon dominates its landscape...
...arises at seven, has an hour's stiff exercise, tries to get to work before his three secretaries. Barrel-chested and haughty, he pads about his swank offices in the Empire State Building or another set of offices at the fair with regal pomp (stenographers greet him: "Good morning, Mr. President"). Once a week he confers with a management council, whose three chief members are Vice Presidents Howard A. Flanigan, John Philip Hogan and Stephen F. Voorhees. Mr. Hogan is the fair's chief engineer, Mr. Voorhees its chief architect. Howard Flanigan is as close as anyone gets...
...village of Les Ribierés, France, Dragoon René Drouet borrowed an automobile, sped through the streets screaming: "Hitler is marching on Paris!", started a panic. Arrested, facing military discipline, Dragoon Drouet faltered: "I thought it would be a good joke...
...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...