Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very pattern of a modern Major-General; I've information vegetable, animal and mineral. Wheezy, ruddy retirement looms before U. S. major-generals as they approach 64. But Major General William Kuthven Smith, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point is stocky, active. A cadet from 1888 to 1892, he was for eleven years an instructor in mathematics, philosophy, ordnance &; gunnery. Truly he might have said looking about for something to do after he retires from the active list and the superintendency this week: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical; I understand equations, both...
...Tough to be Famous (Warner). No sooner had the stage turned to the Lindbergh saga for a new pattern (Happy Landing, TIME, April 4) than the screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore...
...emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius but by the splendid normality of his life. He has given us a pattern that will always be valid: that it is the highest duty and aim of the individual to develop his own individuality and character to the highest extent possible." Clap, clap went the hands of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and other wholehearted Goethians...
...than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie Mack nor jumping up to argue with the umpires like McGraw, are part of a thoroughly indigenous U. S. scene, part of the perspiring pattern of summer days in St. Louis...
...rise, as related by Biographer Gardner, followed no Horatio Alger pattern. He rarely got out of bed before noon, seldom went near his newspaper offices. For 25 of his 72 years he drank industriously, quitting abruptly at 46 when he found that his current consumption of a gallon of whiskey per day threatened his eyesight...