Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shocked and surprised" was U. S. Judge Harry Bennett Anderson of the western district of Tennessee to learn that he too was now an object of attack in the House. Representative LaGuardia, acting on complaints of Memphis citizens, queried the Department of Justice on Judge Anderson's record as to narcotic law violators admitted to low bail, only to default and disappear; as to his connection or that of his family, through loans, with the failure of American Savings Bank and Trust Company of Memphis...
...slot-doorbell, introduced into The Netherlands but a short time ago, has swiftly become a best seller. Instead of ringing the house bell one drops a Dutch cent* into the slot, and when the intelligent mechanism has verified that the object dropped is a cent it goes "Bong...
Social Drinkers. To prove that polite society hostesses really object to serving guests liquor, Mrs. Ruth G. Knowles Strawbridge, matronly Philadelphia socialite, took the stand to tell of her referendum letter among the "socalled better class." She sent out 2,300 queries to hostesses (TIME, July 1). Said she: " I found that these society women regarded liquor drinking at private gatherings as an unutterable nuisance. ... A favorite theme was that of the expense and the great disgrace of maintaining relations with bootleggers." Mrs. Strawbridge declared she received 1,337 responses opposing wet social gatherings, 247 in favor of maintaining them...
Every good college has its Grand Old Man, its patriarch. So necessary is he as an object of veneration, as an oracle, as a figure about whom to swap reunion anecdotes, that if a college did not have a patriarch it would soon invent one. Last week, having reached the halfway mark on a world cruise, Yale's Grand Old Man -President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley-died in Kobe, Japan. With Chauncey Mitchell Depew two years in his grave, with William Howard Taft dead two days later, the end of President Emeritus Hadley left Yale for the present without...
...favorite indoor sport and Smith College the ideal rendezivous, admitted never having been kissed. Dartmouth's ideal girl friend has brown eyes and black hair, and is moderately "fast." Marsters was credited with having done most for the college, while the editor of the "Dartmouth" was chief object of respect...