Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, however, Death once more accomplished what anti-Longsters had been unable to. Of cerebral hemorrhage died Senate-nominee Allen, 54, who had announced his main object in Washington would be to demand an investigation of the assassination of the man on whose political coattails he had ridden...
...Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood he learns that in each of his quiet, passionless love affairs, the image of Mario stands between him and the object of his desire. In the case of his first love, he is rebuffed, not because his sweetheart loves Mario in person, but because she is attracted to the impulsive, spontaneous life that Mario represents, senses its absence in Oliver...
...possible to hear in Whitehall last week that "our foreign policy is shaping itself to save Musso's face, save the P. M.'s face, save Geneva's face, save the Negus' face and save Laval's two faces." With less complicated cynicism the object at Geneva when the League meets this week was said to be "simplicity itself, merely victory...
...Richardson really knew very little about Romanesque architecture. His ornament was original, more often Syrian than Romanesque. In all his churches the object most admired by the public-at-large, the tower of Boston's Trinity Church, was not designed by Richardson at all. It was an adaptation by the slickest of exterior decorators, the late Stanford White, then a draughtsman in the Richardson office, of the lantern of Salamanca Cathedral, added when Trinity's builders announced that they were unable to execute Richardson's more original first design...
...challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since 1927: 360-to-246, in 340 innings; in Chicago...