Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wame is obvious. His paunch has long since passed the embryonic stage and now protuberates in full bloom-a reproach to his brothers and a byword to his friends...
Posted on his 53rd birthday, that terse notice gave Harold Stirling Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last...
Last week in Superior Court in Los Angeles it was as obvious as Mae West's best curves that Mr. Mae West had taken her advice. Even her most devoted fans chortled when they read that her now-admitted hoofer husband's real name is not Wallace but Willities or Szatkus and that the Szatkus family always knew her as Mamie. "Mrs. Mamie Szatkus" was scarcely box-office for glamorous Mae West...
Unmentioned by the World-Telegram was a smaller but even more obvious slip on the part of John L. Lewis. He was photographed last week with his wife and son at a party at the Soviet Embassy in Washington (see cut). Even Chief Justice Hughes has attended functions at the Russian Embassy. But as every good public relations counsel knows, one photograph open to misinterpretation is worth more to the enemy than a barrage of scurrilous speeches. And last week from Germany, United Press relayed just the kind of chit-chat to make such a John Lewis' Soviet Embassy...
...16th and last commencement as president of Yale University. Three years younger than Secretary Hull, President Angell was bowing gracefully to Yale's rule that all faculty-men must retire at 68. All year Dr. Angell, who is lively as a cricket despite what he calls his "obvious and offensive senility," has made no bones of the fact that he was looking for another job. Last week he announced that he had accepted one, full-time and full-sized, as the first Educational Counsellor of National Broadcasting...