Word: massed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revivified Sunset each month, Publisher Lane relies on slender, studious, Yankee-blooded William Ichabod Nichols. An ex-Rhodes scholar, he became an assistant Harvard dean (of freshmen) at the age of 22, and once helped elect a mayor of Cambridge, Mass. Now, at 33, Editor Nichols is a confirmed Far Westerner, likes nothing better than to print pictures of cacti and donkeys in the columns of reader-letters which he compiles every month under the heading "Sunset Gold." He gets some fairly flavorsome inquiries from his readership. Samples: "Dear Mr. Editor, I am troubled with buzzards. How can I shoo...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
Meanwhile Walther Heitler, co-author of a famed theory of electron absorption in gases, had called into theoretical being still another particle, the neutretto-similar in mass to the barytron but having no electrical charge. The existence of neutrettos has not been proved. But in Chicago last week Physicist Francis R. Shonka of the University of Chicago reported high-altitude cosmic-ray experiments, in which he juggled various arrangements of Geiger-Muller cosmic-ray counters and selective lead shields, obtained evidence of something which he took to be electrically neutral particles of high penetrating power...
Having made his debut as a professional actor last summer at Cohasset, Mass, (in It Can't Happen Here), Sinclair Lewis joined Actors' Equity Association to make his Broadway debut next spring (in Angela is Twenty-two). Said he: "This will create a major issue. . . . I'll have to go home and say, 'Darling, I don't know whether you can stand this or not, but I joined the A. F. of L.'* This makes me a reactionary." Then publicity-wise Author-Actor Lewis kissed his sponsor (Helen Hayes), posed for pictures, chortled: "Thank...
Chairman Charles offers other reasons. For one thing the nature of the business was germane to boom times, not bad times. Delivering a jar of caviar to goth Street was all very well; not so a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee. And chains-with low overhead, mass purchases and many good standard brands-cut in plenty...