Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt, Candidate Chandler's campaign platform-economy, no State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach, got himself a sound truck with a live rooster for a radiator emblem, put on a Huey Longish campaign such as Kentuckians had not enjoyed for years. Result: a 95,000 majority for Chandler...
Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
...this condition that startles anyone accustomed to the older English universities. There the teachers are largely absorbed, and become organs of a greater organism. Their existence is of and for the university, and their affiliations are as much social as educational. On the other hand, at Harvard they live in their own hives, and descend upon the college only to apply the sting of knowledge. This is the traditional scheme. For this reason and for practical considerations as well, it is impossible to suggest that Harvard provide lodgings for its instructors. Furthermore, their independence has definite advantages...
...wouldn't be so bad if Cambridge were an ordinary city, but it isn't. Living expenses are twice as high here as in Belmont, an average suburb. And whereas one may live modestly in New York for a monthly rent of $45, here in this comparatively tiny village there is no approach to such economy. The causes are two. First, there are the exceptionally high taxes. Second, there is the fact that so many houses and apartments of approximately the same standard are demanded that the owners are able to hold out for exorbitant prices...
VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE- Barry Benefield-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). Sentimental story of a bad woman of Crebillon, La., who is regenerated through the influence of a manly little 7-year-old. They befriend an orphan named Lady, succeed in the cleaning business in Manhattan and live with such aggressive goodwill toward mankind that mushy seems a more accurate word for Carrie and her friends...