Word: quests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voiced his agreement with Dr. Jones. Saying nothing about the Million Unit Fellowship, potential Christian Churchman Rockefeller declared: "It is a hopeful sign that many people are searching for a simple, fundamental religion as the way to peace, well-being and happiness. ... To the church should this quest naturally lead. But the church, with its sects, still clings to its denominationalism, in which a drifting, disillusioned, discouraged world sees confusion rather than hope...
Venturing into distant fields in quest of the strange unknown this potential Harvardman emphatically explained his adventure by, after setting down his residence as "17 Quincy Street," his daring reason: "to laern more knolgege...
...GOLDEN FLEECE OF CALIFORNIA-Edgar Lee Masters-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Short, stout narrative poem in which short, stout Poet Masters (Spoon River Anthology) compares the adventures of some Forty-niners to the quest of the Argonauts...
...their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island haunts with the passionate absorption of a middle-aged romantic who had set out in quest of his youth, found it and decided it had not amounted to much...
...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...