Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Navy had news of the biggest and some of the smallest fighting boats in the world. Big and little, the boats were on paper, but they were near enough to water to catch the interest of admirals, dictators and all those, including Franklin Roosevelt, who thrill to anything that floats...
Food. After the war-weary city had displayed white flags from the tallest buildings and the Franco troops had taken possession, 6,500 truckloads of food for half-starved inhabitants began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because...
...Simple instructions are more persuasive. When a teacher, pointing to glass toys, said "Put them away in the red box," 34 of 37 moppets did so. But when she said: "We have to be very careful of these glass animals. We wrap them up in tissue paper. We put them away in a red box. ... It would be too bad to break them. . . . You put them away," only seven children responded correctly...
...daily changes owners. But on the fingers of one hand can be counted the big city newspapers which have been launched, new, in the last 20 years. So it was a rare event when a new journalistic team this week got down to the work of creating such a paper. Their aim: not simply another but a new kind of newspaper, for New York City...
...finds it "an art without positive moral values, an art that evades those attitudes of restraint and intellectual poise upon which complex civilizations are built. At best it offers civilized man only a temporary escape into drunken self-hypnotism." Like the American skyscraper, movie plot and funny paper, Jazz has no conclusion. But, admits Author Sargeant, it has vitality and, maybe, a future...