Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most big-time radio programs like to take summer vacations because: 1) their performers usually need the rest, 2) radio listening falls off during the summer. Many sponsors this year, to keep the pot boiling during the dog days, are replacing their regular shows with others less expensive, some are giving their time over to try-out shows or sustaining programs, taking advantage of new policies of both NBC and CBS which, under some circumstances, assure vacationing advertisers of their accustomed air spots again, come fall...
...only to arouse astonishment, awe, and a harmful reverence by means of objects rare, old. costly, and of aristocratic history, it needs only acquire such objects, place them on walls or pose them in cases, speak with seeming authority of Art, Beauty, Esthetics, Styles, Periods, and the like, and rest content...
...basest instincts of the masses." Maliciously courteous, Publisher Prouvost offered, in view of Maurras' extreme age and deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ it to whitewash him." Thereupon punctilious M. Prouvost drew up a proces -verbal, which declared formally that, inasmuch as M. Maurras had not shown up, the duel...
Since then the Newark Museum, under Director Dana's devoted successor, Beatrice Winser, has gone through lean years and come out with no activities lost. Meanwhile, the rest of the country has been catching up with it. Museum workers trained in Dana's "apprentice classes" (another first in the U. S.) have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first...
...heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk back to you-just like a Democrat...