Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Front Cover) There are 6,000 golf courses in the U. S., 2,000 in the British Empire, only 1,000 in the rest of the world. Because two-thirds of the world's golf is played on U. S. soil, it is not surprising that U. S. golfers have the reputation of being the world's best...
Born in Manhattan of Norwegian parents, big, chubby-cheeked Erling Iversen is a graduate of New York University, lives in Brooklyn, studied this past year at Princeton's Graduate School. His fellowship requires that he spend some six months each year in Rome, but the rest of the time, far from reeling and moaning through the streets. Architect Iversen intends to travel-"if they keep the peace," he said gloomily, "which I doubt...
...live in dusty cities, especially for those who work in dusty factories, mills or mines, were the conclusions of Dr. Barclay & associates. "Healthy lungs should have no difficulty in coping with the minute amounts that are inhaled in the most dusty atmospheres, provided the subject is given an adequate rest period away from these atmospheres." But people who live in damp and dirty cities have no such assurance, because ''it seems possible that a moist atmosphere might tend to agglomerate particles of suitable dusts, and turn them into a semifluid, which could interfere with ciliary action...
...Book sales react automatically to Jackson's by no means low-brow judgments. He damned Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas out of West Coast best-seller lists while they were doing well throughout the rest of the country. His one conspicuous failure was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. A full broadcast of dispraise was unavailing against Californian determination to win and influence...
...twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...