Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four compact little books each of which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each great Italian school. To U. S. boarding school girls abroad in well-chaperoned quest of charm, these became standard vade mecums. In 1900 prospering Mr. Berenson bought a villa near Florence and settled there for life...
Sample titles are "The Quest of a Flannel Row Boat" and "An Evening Behind the Eightball...
Born in Ohio-then moved to Kan., On to Missouri and Louisian'; Then headed West toward the setting sun In quest of happiness, friends...
With that limitation in mind, the quest becomes distinctly discouraging. The names one hears most frequently are Nen Mexico's Circuit Judge Sam Bratton California's Circuit Judge William Penman. Senator Louis B. Schwellenbach of Washington, and then, a little farther to the East, former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. There is nothing particularly against Mr. Bratton, who has served in Congress, in addition to his judicial experience. Politically perhaps his appointment would not be the expedient for the President, for New Mexico is rarely a crucial state, with its three electoral votes. Denman is a weak judge...
...Live" magazine delves into the past of an American tavern girl who would become a lady; that she never quite succeeds until age has given her a dignity that might well pass as gentility is immaterial, for the course of her peregrinations on her quest provide a bonanza of risque and highly humorous situations...