Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
...week for U. S. illustrators. At its club house on Manhattan's West 24th Street, the big happy family known as the Society of Illustrators neared the end of a month of sober lectures by technicians including non-illustrators Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Reginald Marsh. At the swank Park Lane its members reveled until dawn in gay costume at their annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most difficult field," it said defiantly...
...bomby Sunday afternoon, Mona Gardner sat in a Shanghai park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...Pollak H. '40, Alfred J. Gilbert '41, Spencer Klaw '41, Rodman Gilder '40, William W. Tyng '41, F. Cameron Ludwig '42, Michael P. Grace '40, Robert Bean '39, Francis Bourne '40, Arthur Cantor '40, David Epstein '39, Arthur Gardiner '39, Armand Gilinsky '40, Stanley Kapner '40, Richard S. Lane '41, Irving Lewis '39, Treadwell Ruml '39, James Stern '39, Michael Mayer '39, Richard Ruggles '39, F. Wolch Peel '39, Richard Gilder '36, Tatsuo Miyakawa '40, Kenneth Kramer '39, and George Jacobs...
...went some 600 teachers, admen, editors and merchants. The conference was not devoted entirely to cheering. Said Rockefeller Foundation's Stacy May: "In the world of politics, the consumer is a blind beggar of gigantic stature, who stands on the corner of Paradox Street and Pressure Group Lane with little to sell but his woe. Potentially he would seem to be immense. Actually, he is all but completely impotent...