Word: outward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HEROES-Millen Brand-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two years ago Millen Brand's The Outward Room gave 100,000 readers a large lump in their throats. That simple, moving story described the redemption of a forgotten girl through the loving sympathy of a good man. The Heroes, slighter and non-lump-raising, describes the redemption of a forgotten man through the loving sympathy of a good girl. A plotless, subdued story it is laid in a New England Soldiers' Home, the apathy of whose inmates casts a pall over the novel...
...Philadelphia's Franklin Institute last week a dummy named Oscar was catapulted headfirst against an automobile windshield. The pane cracked and some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
...Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...
...reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed. If Jim Farley should run for President next year, the inevitable whispering about the Pope-in-the-White-House would more likely help than hurt him. This is the outward, political aspect of an inner, social change which Catholicism underwent in the U. S. during the reign of Achille Ratti. The country is still Protestant, but amid the deepening class cleavages of today, the Roman Catholic Church is recognized as a Gibraltar of conservatism, and respect for the constancy...
...Outward Bound. Competent revival of Sutton Vane's dramatic story of people who discover they are dead (TIME...