Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony Adverse to make smooth their path, romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down the broad highway. In England, Jeffery Farnol's Beltane the Smith, Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, felt new life in their bones. A Dutchman named Johan Fabricius wrote his version of the old sweet...
...maker of the world's most superior mouse trap never had a more worn path to his door than that which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell, Public Works Administrator Ickes, Works Progress Administrator Hopkins, Resettler Tugwell and CCChief Robert Fechner beat to the door of the Executive Office last week. Day after day they went, conferred, departed uttering only Delphic nothings to the Press...
...East 40th, New York City. We try to show each little utility The lack of charm and utter futility Of being bad, and how to be good And stay on the path of rectitude. But if on that road they run amuck, We'll ride them down with the big Mack...
...squawking as well as the melody of the collegiate lyres on the campus. This book reveals both her knowledge and her sympathy. All the contributors are college men and women, but their interests, beyond that single tie of unity, are diverse. Some reveal their slavish adherence to a path which they have not enriched by plundering for old measures and pedantic allusions; others have stolen in order to bring to us something compounded, in the best classical manner of the past and the present as their poetic minds envision it, Hackneyed themes are abundant, much too abundant, one fears...
ASSERTING that there is a "genuine ferment on the campus" and hoping that this ferment will lead to a union of college youth marching on the "path to an ordered, cooperative, profitless society," James Weschler has, with his admirably written study of the "Revolt on The Campus" made an important contribution to our understanding of the present maelstrom of confused tendencies of political thought and action as they whirl about the ivyed walls. Documented with care and thoroughness, organized with skill and clarity the work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes...