Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged...
...Suzanne Lenglen, after losing a set to Molla Mallory, defaulted when she developed a hacking cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of the third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four...
...words, like muchness." Thus did Vanity Fair in its current number dedicate "Vanity Fair's Own Paper Dolls," a new one-page feature. In the centre of the page was a drawing of Mr. Morgan in underclothes (see cut). In the four corners were costume patterns to fit Mr. Morgan's moods. One was a tattered brown suit, patched with green and purple, which hung loosely on a headless figure holding in his hands the cup and pencils of a street beggar. A miniature girlish figure clung to the belt. The title was: "Investigation Suit, with Midget Attached...
When, two years ago this fall, the pattern of life of the Harvard upperclassman was poured into the new mold of the House Plan, the College found that two elements were not comprehended in the new scheme of things. One was the Freshmen the other the Yard. With the resourcefulness which one comes to expect from the rulers of University Hall, the two were put together and the problem was solved...
Moonlight and Pretzels (Universal). The extraordinary thing about this musi-comedy is not that it resembles Forty-Second Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction...