Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tickled pink were Flemingtonians. Not only was their personal property rate for State and county lowered but their town tax almost disappeared-shrank from $1.15 to 10?. Santa Claus had come to town out of season. The good word got around. Great Western Sugar Co. (assets: $82,402,000) heard it, blinked at the 67? tax rate, pulled up stakes in Plainfield. Into Judge Large's office, a block from the courthouse, went Great Western's new safe and papers-and the place got crowded...
...wear & tear on royal nerves when an aging, amorous Queen falls in love with a vain, personable young nobleman whose head she must cut off if she wants to keep her throne. It also demonstrates that Cinemactor Errol Flynn is prettier than Cinemactress Bette Davis, but not such a good actor...
...Good shot: delightfully dumb Mechanic Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom fingering his baby shoes, murmuring: "I musta been a good baby...
...Munich. The characters: Nazi Poet Dietrich Eckart and Sturmer Ernst Roehm; another man, at a table apart from them, moody, alone. Eckart speaks: "We must have a fellow at the head who won't wince at the rattle of a machine gun. The rabble must be given a good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women...
Before long Edward Bruce's good friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had him heading a newly created Section of Fine Arts, charged with supervising such decoration. Very few ladies in cheesecloth have found their way into Federal buildings since. The sort of art which has replaced them was amply demonstrated last week by a 456-item show in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, celebrating the Section of Fine Arts' fifth anniversary...