Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just reading the second line of the first paragraph of the article "Indiana-Purdue Deadlock" [TIME, March 16]. Quoting "To that state, flat as a huge gymnasium floor"-where do you think Indiana is? Out on the Texas Panhandle? True, we do have level areas but some of our best players come from down in them thar hills. Whoever wrote the article must have been too young to have read Abe Martin and have seen the pictures that went with it. Why, the New Deal says one-third of Indiana is so rough and hilly it should be made...
...liquor consumption at the auditorium bar, you fail to mention there were several hundred commercial exhibits on the same floor level, with over a thousand salesmen representing many firms selling school supplies and equipment. I was constantly mingling with schoolmen and failed to notice at anytime a colleague with symptoms of indulgence. At least the outward manifestation was not comparable to the American Legion convention you mention...
...tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more on its recreation centre. Though Homestake is a non-union mine, miners' wages were never cut below the 1929 level, were raised...
Hitler's fast rise to power was inseparably tied up with his promises to free Germany and to put her back on a level with the other great nations of the world, and his present position is only due to the feeling pervading all Germany that the world hated her and wanted to enslave her for all time. It is just the kind of feeling that your editorial represents and the kind of action that it endorses that put Hitler more firmly in the saddle and make many of us wonder whether he isn't justified in renouncing dictated treaties...
Most pleasantly surprising, perhaps, is to see Marlene's ability with comedy. She no longer stoops to conquer with her legs, but none the less her dignity in this picture is dropped from the grand tragedienne level. Comedy is throughout the sustaining force. From the point at the beginning where Adventuress Dietrich bumps together the heads of a jeweller and a psychiatrist, in order to get away with a gorgeous string of stolen pearls, to the point at the end where those same two dupes are joyful witnesses at the wedding, the atmosphere is charged with worldly, debonair mirth...