Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even though he was too weak to take his daily drive, the Pope would have little to do with doctors, preferred to have his valet try "home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...
Most economists agree that sustained U. S. recovery depends on a real rise in demand for producer goods. Last week there were signs of such a rise. Meanwhile, General Motors' report on 1938 earnings brought home last year's ominous disparity between recovery in consumer and producer goods...
...television had become a reality in England, where Farnsworth licensed Baird Television Ltd., and in Germany, where he licensed Fernseh A. G. But though the U. S. was the home of Philo Farnsworth and the adopted home of his sole peer in television, RCA's Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, television remained something U. S. citizens heard much about but seldom saw. Last week the U. S. heard something more about television: after twelve years Philo Farnsworth was to have his own manufacturing company with two factories and over $2,500,000 in cash behind...
Small Jesse (Roger Daniel) runs away from home and gets into bad company. Caught pilfering on the street, he and his friends are put in jail, paroled in the custody of the turpentine camp operators. They have a miserable time. The food is wretched, the superintendent has an ugly temper and they are overcharged at the company store. Presently, Jesse and friends try to run away. Bloodhounds trail them. They are hauled into court again, but this time a kindly judge sends them off to a kindly reform school, sternly reprimands their employers...
Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...