Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleading for a two-year extension for NRA last month, President Roosevelt told Congress: "A great advance has been made in the opportunities and assurances of collective bargaining between employers and employes. Under it the pattern of a new order of industrial relations is definitely taking shape." Last week at Louisville, Ky. (see p. 15) and Wilmington, Del. the pattern of that new order was badly disarranged by two Federal judges who thought in terms of the Law rather than in terms of the social aspirations of the New Deal...
Bright in the pattern of New York's history have been the dozens of prima donnas who made news with every utterance, set fashions in food and dress, left vivid memories with every song they sang. Old men still live who remember pious Jenny Lind when she trilled in gaslit Castle Garden, a protégée of that amazing Yankee, Phineas T. Barnum. Adelina Patti was singing at the old Academy of Music on 14th Street when broughams first brought Vanderbilts and Astors to the shiny new doors of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...Syndicated journalism may have eliminated the silver-tongued reporters of the Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis schools. In their place, modernism has given the talking cinema to journalism. The March of Time is contemporary history on the screen, welcomed by the industry as a new pattern for pointing up new ideas in the treatment of news, the cineman's cinema...
...Corset Patterns, At Georgia's Warm Springs Surgeon Michael Hoke invented a clever pattern for the steel-framed corsets which some victims of infantile paralysis wear to keep their spines from growing crooked. Dr. Hoke molds strips of lead to the patient's body, then fashions steel corset "bones"' to duplicate the lead patterns exactly...
...Norris writes pattern stuff that always moves, however circuitously, to the happy end. "The reason why people like my books," she says, "is that I write of life as I want it to be." Since Mrs. Norris follows the dictates of her Church, the heroines in her stories can never get divorces, never practice birth control. As a result of this strict plot limitation, only the death of any who block her heroine's way can lead to a happy ending. And death stalks the pages of Mrs. Norris' novels as grimly and certainly as in a Greek...