Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...
...Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also has his say on divorce, the double standard...
...month these notables contracted to have the best of the world's music on tap in their homes (without aid of radio or phonograph) just as they have hot water or electricity. This music will come over telephone lines by a special process of Muzak Corp., a little-known company headed by a famed figure of "new era" finance-Waddill Catchings...
Wired Radio, Inc., out of which Muzak Corp. grew in 1934, had been incorporated in 1922, was about ready to start opera tions when Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because...
...present process by which assigned books become available to the undergraduate is open to criticism from merchants and undergraduates alike, and growing murmurs of discontent from the town as well as the gown point to the need for immediate reform...