Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Franklin Roosevelt sitting at a table aboard ship in the Azores or some equally remote anchorage, settling the world's hash personally with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was drawn in calm, confident words last week on the front page of the New York Times by its Washington correspondent, Arthur Krock. Some time last summer, said Mr. Krock, Mr. Roosevelt asked the Dictators to slip away and meet him at sea, but they declined...
...Lucille Pugh, noted Manhattan divorce attorney, in a learned four-page brief citing precedents from at home and abroad: "The only legal conclusion is that until the ceremony is over, either party has the right to change his mind. When Andy heard the shots, his mind certainly did change...
...chairman of that 'punch-pulling' Student Council Committee, I had the opportunity to get a really intimate picture of the condition," stated the head of the Committee that wrote a twenty page report on tutoring schools two years...
...morning last week Harvard's students and professors were startled when they picked up their copies of the usually sober Crimson, found it flaming with big headlines and an editorial splashed all over the front page...
...cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything I have ever read in fiction."), it gives the South its most pungent picture of common life, the Writers' Project its strongest claim to literary distinction...