Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With critics who compare his slick, sterilized landscapes to picture postcards, fan decorations and candy-box covers, Artist Nichols has long waged dubious battle through a stream of open letters. Sample Nichols rebuke: "I still maintain that your reference to my tempera looking 'like a candy-box' is unfair to designers in the graphic arts. . . . Had you said that my painting looked like a bad candy-box cover I would not have objected...
...Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long, as the French Army advanced cautiously into no-man's-land between the Maginot Line and Germany's Westwall. dubious tales of major battles impending or in progress went across the Atlantic...
...negligence but censorship had caused Timesman Birchall to miss his deadline, along with other U. S. correspondents in London. Since the day war began, censors have been reading all news that goes out of Britain by radio or cable. They find little to suppress, but cause long delays that madden newswriters in hours of crisis. The night the Athenia went down they were all in bed. had to be routed out and brought blear-eyed to their posts before reading could begin. By that time radio commentators had got their own texts censored, had told late listeners in America...
Comedy of Ignorance. Bewildered was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
...unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...