Word: knickknacks
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...haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome knickknack...
...such a day Secretary James and wife almost always dine at the White House. After dinner he usually goes upstairs with his father to the knickknack-filled second-floor study, next to the President's bedroom. Recently, a reporter asked an old-time politician how much influence James exerted on the affairs of the nation...
...grew "as mushrooms grow in a meadow, where the roots of some old tree are buried under the earth." When they won him the attention of the wealthy Peabody family, he was so unused to human companionship that he entered their drawing room "pale and stricken," picked up a knickknack from the table to soothe his agitation but found that his hand was trembling so, he almost dropped...
...President Roosevelt's reply to such attacks was not a defense of the bill, but a new, headline-making slap at the rich. Centring a sheaf of penciled notes on his knickknack-littered desk, he announced to newshawks that he had been making a personal study of the tax returns of 58 people who in 1932 had incomes of $1,000,000 or more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were...
...crowded knickknack splendor of Buckingham Palace one day last week Queen Mary's costly phalanx" of long case clocks marked a fateful teatime. James Ramsay MacDonald's last hour as Prime Minister was striking...