Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely a sign of weakness on the part of church organizations and other reform groups when they resort to censorship. It is a confession of their own inability to instill in persons certain moral ideas that they think are right. The only test for the truthfulness of ideas can only be made when all ideas have the same opportunity for expression and when a choice between alternatives is afforded...
Hastings, Sussex, where William the Conqueror defeated England's Harold, is now a sleepy shore resort where the Norman horns are echoed only by the snorings of retired British colonels. Nonetheless, Hastings acknowledges its past with an appropriate tradition. There, every winter, the chess masters of the world face each other across their tiny polished armies in England's most important tournament. By last week, each of the ten masters invited to Hastings had played nine matches, one against each opponent, and the tournament was over. Like Harold, England's hope, Sir George Thomas had been defeated...
...enlarged snapshots of the Pantherman in dynamic feats of prowess: Starace jumping his horse over his racing car; Starace pole-vaulting; Starace in a soaring leap across parallel bars; Starace motorcycling at 140 kilometers per hour. Up went Starace last week to Sestrieres, swank yet popular priced winter resort. There he went snugly to bed. got up early next morning, started zipping down the ski jump. Soon Starace broke his right...
...February, when his crag-climbing father slipped and fell to Death, has young King Leopold climbed an Alp. Last week, with the impatient winter sap of born Alpinists boiling in their veins, wavy-haired King Leopold and his svelte Swedish consort Astrid set out for their favorite Swiss mountaineering resort amid nationwide Belgian alarm...
Connecticut used to be one of the New England states, and to New Englanders it still is, but Manhattanites tend to think of it as a rustic week-end resort. To Iowa-born Phil Stong, writing of the sophisticated eccentricities of a Manhattanite smart set, Connecticut is a natural setting for their Jabberwockian gimblings. Author Stong's brilliant exaggeration has made even his native Iowa a melodramatic backdrop; with the iridescent decadence of a Westerner's East in which to dip his brush, he has outdone himself. His Week-End is a melodrama of gamily high life, told...