Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs. . . . Thirteen million Americans are now unemployed. Their numbers are steadily increasing, as the nation drifts with terrifying and deadly sureness to the never, never realm of financial bankruptcy, economic collapse and human tragedy. This is appallingly true, despite the fact that Government has dipped into the public purse to make possible the granting of huge subsidies to industry, agriculture, banking and finance. . . . Our national internal economy has attained the amazing condition where it appears that practically all of our major enterprises...
...course it is effective," cabled Matthews of the bombing. "Human beings are not built to withstand such horror . . . makes one either hysterical or on the verge of hysteria . . . hard to remain sane...
Manhattan's dapper little Karl William Zoeller is an advertiser with shrewd understanding of the heartier elements in human nature. Last week, as director of the Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc., he staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them...
...Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could act so-so nastily...
...proclaimed a day of prayer for "peace, harmony and fraternity" among all Rumanian faiths. Handsomely he wrote Dr. Jacob Isaac Niemirower, Chief Rabbi of 1,000,000 Rumanian Jews, that "the Jewish religion is recognized to enable it to make better human beings and more faithful citizens of its followers." Chief Rabbi Niemirower, his yarmulke (skullcap) bobbing with excitement, ordered synagog gatherings throughout Rumania on the day of prayer, to pledge Jewry's loyalty and devotion...