Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side-office man corresponding to Political Secretary Walter Newton and Research Secretary French Strother. An oldtime Washington Times man, he handled the Navy's Press relations during the War, caught the eye of the Assistant Secretary whom he helped campaign in 1920. A year ago he left Pathé Newsreel to go to Albany as the Governor's personal Press representative and later as general factotum and business manager of his campaign. Few White House visitors will see his cadaverous face...
...surly Monday morning expressions of Saturday night gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could see into the hearts of the editors they should see there the genuine desire to uplift youth and help it traverse as painlessly as possible, the rocky path of adolescence. The editors plead and beg on bended knee for a little more seemliness in campus dress, and the campus goes on oblivious to all criticism, leaving them to listen to the hollow trumpeting of the nation's press. After all, the News belongs to the student body...
...this time the genteel body of the Corporation, leaving a fine white trail of Union cigar ashes behind it, had reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...chill fact that industry was over-expanded. Humanity's material desires, industry argued, are susceptible of indefinite expansion. Hence, production may be indefinitely expanded. High pressure salesmanship (for which Hemingway has popularized an eloquent word), distorted advertising, and installment-plan buying were industry's biggest bricks in its primrose path to expansion. Good intentions...
They were excited and mildly surprised, but the vagabond felt that they had not yet had time to realize the full meaning of President Lowell's retirement. Time is an inexorable Juggernaut in the path of which none can stand; yet to some it seemed far too soon. There is so much that is well begun remaining yet to be finished, and the hand that sketched the outline can best wield the brush for the finishing strokes. These are the practical and trite considerations with which the Vagabond rationalizes his wish that the great man might have remained...