Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long ago Bernarr Macfadden discovered that while a large audience will listen to lectures on whole-wheat bread, muscle-building and deep breathing, a much larger crowd will attend if the object on display is a nicely rounded female without too many clothes. Also he learned that a sermon on ethics will gain the ears of millions if the text is the parable of the stenographer who lusted for her employer. From these two truisms, aided by a complete lack of good taste, Bernarr Macfadden evolved a magazine publishing formula which made him rich. As years rolled by and millions...
...Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
Even this dramatic offer drew only perfunctory Conference applause as Mr. Gibson left the tribune. He was followed by icy Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary. "The object of this Conference," Sir John witheringly observed, "is to induce agreement. Agreement is not to be obtained by unilateral statement but by cooperation, by give & take...
Glumly after the joyful German, Japan's Tsuneo Matsudalra arose to object, "In devising any new schemes . . . full preliminary exchange of views should take place among the powers directly interested...
...faced west toward the land of unlimited resources. When Washington Duke began to make cigarets as well as smoking tobacco he gave as his reason: "My company is up against a stone wall. It can't compete with the Bull." Durham's bull was the object of a score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last...