Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these-carefully prepared and prereleased to the press-the editing of Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen was unmistakable. They stamped Mr. Ickes as Possibility No. 1 in the Janizariat's mind for a 1940 Presidential candidate acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt, a candidate to be built up before Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley and his alliance of local bosses can converge on someone else, such as Missouri's Senator Bennett Clark.* "I think President Roosevelt would carry the United States if he ran again, and he might have to run," declared Mr. Ickes...
William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, journeyed to New York a couple of days age to address the Herald-Tribune Forum on "Keeping the Mind Clean. Through Sport." Tennist Holen Wills and slugger Lou Gehrig were near him, but right beside him was a vacant chair...
...fumbled with his black tie. This was always the hardest part of it--this and getting used to the bite of the collar button as it dug into his throat. But he didn't really mind too much. The thing had to be done, and it was only once in three years. He looked over the letter lying on his desk. "Dear Vag: Will you give the Associates and Tutors and pleasure of your company at the head table at the October House Dinner.... We usually wear dinner coats, but that is by no means essential...
...regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
When her subject is right, as it was in Time Out of Mind and Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field can do it up brown. Her robust whimsicality, freshness and charm rank her, without disparagement, as the Louisa May Alcott of contemporary writers. All this, and Heaven too, the "true" story of her great-aunt, Henriette Desportes Field, is a Rachel Field natural...