Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. The Right Reverend Robert Lewis Paddock, 69, retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Eastern Oregon; after long illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Spirited anti-Fascist and American Civil Liberties Union crusader, unorthodox, unconventional Bishop Paddock was continually at odds with the House of Bishops...
...likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...
...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...
...plunge into politics. Startled observers asked themselves: Are P. E. N. writers ahead of their readers or are they just catching up with the world's fear that civilization is doomed? Do they really mean to fight the forces threatening it? Answers to the second question were not long in coming...
...best letters are brief, direct, factual. The best letter writers are usually women and soldiers, who observe closely, state simply. Worst letter writers are usually writers-who philosophize. Among topflight U. S. letter-writing writers have long been Henry Adams, Henry James, John Hay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Last week readers who could spare the price could look at all the Emerson letters they were ever likely to want, in six good-looking, gilt and salmon-pink volumes. Of these letters, claims Editor Ralph Leslie Rusk, 2,313 have never been printed before...