Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, K.C.L. A-2 at 15,004 feet is still the deepest hole in the ground...
...United Federal Workers of America (Government employes' union) sent emissaries to Seattle with a message saying: "Unorganized, these [Government] workers present a danger to the labor movement. . . . They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves rather as members of a profession than as proletarians. 2) Juniors who felt that the day of rewarding social workers with much praise and small pay should pass, and that the way to make...
Sample platitudes and homely phrases: "To essay too much at once may, by arousing opposition, imperil the plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...
...Shopworn Angel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When telling the story of an actress who, no better than she should be, finds spiritual redemption in her love for an unspoiled youth from the country, Hollywood treads on ground sanctified by old familiar precedent. Thus sanctified is The Shopworn Angel-first told by Dana Burnet in the Saturday Evening Post for Sept. 14, 1918, later, as a picture in 1929. Faith such as Hollywood has always shown in such stories seldom goes unrewarded. As it emerges from its previous tellings, The Shopworn Angel is still a tear jerker in the grand manner-simple...
...Pittsburgh, in the book department of the Joseph Home Co., The Yearling, My Son, My Son! and Neil Swanson's The Forbidden Ground were tied all month, had sold exactly the same number of copies at month...