Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farouk took to the streets to fight it out with adherents of Premier Nahas and the Wafdists. At week's end both combatants were stubbornly holding out on a decision as 11,000 pro-Farouk students at El-Azhar university, chief Moslem theological school, went on a mass sit-down strike to back up the young monarch...
...years Connie Mack has celebrated his birthday on Dec. 23. Last summer he visited his birthplace (East Brookfield, Mass.), discovered he was born Dec. 22, 1862, decided it was too late to change and plans to continue observing his nativity on the 23rd. It is characteristic that the Mack legend, greatest in baseball history, should start right off with a myth...
This vast gallonage obviously cannot be consumed by any small group of connoisseurs. It must have a mass market. This fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
During its ten years the N. C. J. C. has sponsored some 25,000 conferences and round tables among U. S. religionists. Its Institute of Human Relations every other summer at Williamstown, Mass, has been well covered in the U. S. press. Its mailed, mimeographed news service, which has 380 correspondents throughout the U. S. and abroad, and henceforth is to be called the Religious News Service, gained 92 paying clients in the secular and religious press during the past year. Since 1933 when it first sent out a touring "pilgrimage team" consisting of a minister, rabbi and priest...
Those who think of authors as being rent-free tenants of an ivory tower might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children...