Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More Than a Secretary (Columbia) can best be diagnosed as a minor symptom of Columbia's current attack of whimsey. To test the curriculum of her business school, Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season...
After an habitual smoker stops, says Dr. Dorsey, his senses of smell and taste become acute. Appetite shows marked improvement. "Nervous, undernourished young women in particular are sometimes seen to undergo a renaissance. . . . Likewise the tense, active, tired man often improves his state of health...
Last January Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz of Brooklyn ordered the customs officials to give Dr. Stone her pessaries on the grounds that contraceptives might save the life and health of women, that therefore police officers who prevented the use of contraceptives interfered with the prerogatives of physicians. The decision practically canceled the whole series of "Comstock laws." Reluctant to yield to reversal of a 63-year-old U. S. prohibition, Government lawyers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Manhattan, who last week upheld the Moscowitz decision, enabled Mrs. Sanger to crow: "Contraceptive material...
...life, conferences many years ago invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week to be steered back to the steering committee. The Secretary of State, who is never downhearted or discouraged, commenced a lobbying campaign to nurse his brain children into health & strength while other statesmen give birth to theirs. Not wicked but as good as most mothers, the Conference statesmen pursued their Destiny...
...Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think Pacifist von Ossietzky, whom they call a "traitor...