Word: rested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours before returning Captain Eden marched up the Queen Mary's gangplank in Manhattan, down it marched Ambassador Joe Kennedy. He denied that his second return from London within six months had any high significance: he was just going to spend Christmas with son Jack at Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
...September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes the amount of its deficit out of the $100,000 nut, gives back the rest to the workers. If the deficit is $100,000 or more the workers of course get nothing; if there is a profit, they...
Before an audience of 1,000 socialites in Manhattan's Town Hall, Professor John Erskine gave a lecture on "The Rise of Jazz and Swing." Swingmaster Benny Goodman & band came along to show how it was done, had some of the audience bouncing in their seats, the rest embarrassed. Swing-Scholar Erskine summed up with a slogan: "Bach plus swing equals vitality...
Extradited to New York, Philip Musica took the whole blame, pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The rest of the Musicas dropped out of circulation. Philip stayed in the Tombs, helping the District Attorney's office with the case. "The Human Hair Mystery" got a big play in the papers of 1913, when (according to Who's Who) Frank Donald Coster was a practicing physician in New York...
Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...