Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week.* For only one of the 38, Catholic Jacques Maritain, believes firmly in a personal God or in traditional Christianity. As individual as their authors, who range from Humorist James Thurber to Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the credos still managed to agree that the world's state is parlous, that organized religion offers no real solution...
...feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came...
...fever of esthetic excitement. "I went reeling and moaning thro' the streets!" said Henry James of his first visit. If art students reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation when he took the occasion of his victory to comment darkly...
...railroads are as prosperous as the Chesapeake & Ohio, whose tracks from Norfolk to Chicago brought it a net income of $43,700,000 in 1936, of $31.000,000 in the first eleven months of 1937. Few U. S. railroads have been closer to insolvency without actually being in that parlous state than the Erie, whose tracks from Chicago to New York have been kept in operation in recent years only by loans totaling $16.582.000 from Reconstruction Finance Corp. Both lines are part of the old Van Sweringen system and ! last month they b came even more closely related when...
...soon as the resolution was published, into Atlantic City popped the A. M. A.'s incredibly verbose Senate spokesman, whiskery little old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. This was his big moment to assure the doctors that he would take care of them in the parlous legislative future. Orated Senator 'Lewis...