Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America has no "servant class" bred up to niceties of the household and restaurant as in England, and the notion of it is altogether discordant with any liberal traditions that we are fortunate enough to have. The suggestion that more attention be paid to the small amenities, noticed only when absent, draws no lines or social distinction, as it applies in nearly as great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes...
...Congress to deliberate upon the New Deal. Two years ago the delegates to the annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce converged on Washington with quaking hearts and fearful step, plumped for President Roosevelt's proposed partnership of Government & Business and departed with only the vaguest notion of the New Deal's implications. Last year, somewhat wiser and more cheerful, the convening Chambermen undertook to criticize the New Deal-only to have the President tell them sharply to stop crying ''Wolf!" By last week business profits had recovered enough to send the Chambermen...
...notion that marathon races are cruel is debatable. Marathon runners undoubtedly enjoy them. When he regained enough strength and composure last week, skinny, sad-faced John Adelbert Kelley, who became one of this year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training...
Flowers of the Forest (by John van Druten; Katharine Cornell, producer). Scientific romancers have for years toyed with the notion of a super-radio which, reaching out into time and space, would overtake receding sound waves, reproduce such historic utterances as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address or Shakespeare's remarks after the opening performance of Hamlet. With more daring than credibility, Playwright, van Druten (Young Woodley) has seized upon the idea of recapturing thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin...
...German rearmament, and 2) the refusal of Germany and Poland to enter military pacts for punishment of armed aggression, particularly the Eastern Locarno Pact. In London this week Sir John and Prime Minister MacDonald, who decided to go to Stresa too, seemed to have no policy except a vague notion that Britain should try to ''mediate...