Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an Anglican approved. Kenneth Ashcroft, a rural dean near London, exclaimed: "People who put a halfpenny in the collection plate . . . should be slung out of the church." His church, he added, had raised collections 20% by substituting open plates for the velvet alms bags generally used in England...
...Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
Something was the matter and its name was Henry Louis Mencken. Instead of a tidy page full of editorials, letters to the editor, etc., there was just one column of editorials. Where the other six columns have been was a great open space covered with tiny black dots, like the background of a cut-1,000,075 dots in all. In the adjoining editorial the Evening Sun explained that each dot represented one person in the Federal Government's ''immense corps of jobholders. . . . The dots, unfortunately, had to be made very small. . . . Even so, the chart...
...great international fairs, each intended to express the most harmonious, inventive, powerful and beautiful elements in U. S. life, each likewise dedicated to the improvement of business in its locality and each scheduled to open in 1939, are now a-building-one on Long Island's Flushing Meadows and the other on a sandy ("Treasure") island in San Francisco Bay. Last week, controversy put them both in the news...
...this time walk blindfolded through the story of the girl who has to submit to subterfuge, disguise and heartache to get her chance. Miss Swarthout's version of this old story is pleasantly ingenuous. But with aging John Barrymore pitting his serrated profile against John Boles's open-mouthed full face in a battle of closeups, throughout most of the film, Miss Swarthout's singing interludes come through in furtive fragments. Her repertory includes the Berceuse from Jocelyn while Boles and Barrymore play a ticktacktoe; the Habanera aria from Carmen, shot through with closeups of Actor Boles...