Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest (41.4), Dr. Hoffman has no idea. Shooting continues to be the most popular U. S. method of self-destruction (38.4%). About half as popular are hanging, poisons, gas. Not popular are drowning, slashing or stabbing, jumping from high places. However, ''high places seem to have peculiar fascinations for suicides, and, broadly speaking, the frequency of such suicides is increasing." A new suicide tendency which disconcerts Dr. Hoffman is "the apparent increase in the number of suicides following murder...
...rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q. Hut since I have few reporter or editorial acquaintances who have escaped such visitations, I gather that it is a perennial problem, not only to the trades of journalism, but to all allied or competitive industries...
...partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time she returned for good...
...hunters; tall, blond, mighty-muscled Nazi youths in civilian clothes, appeared suddenly on the Kurfürstendamm but seemed at first not to know quite what to do. Soon group leaders dashed up in snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead...
Last week, exhibiting that peculiar U. S. urge to sweat in convention assembled, most of the New Deal's onetime economists and a number of other experts gathered in Ithaca. N. Y. for a Cornell Monetary Conference. Much in evidence on his home ground was Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against...