Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill a one-acter called Bound East For Cardiff. Sick with stage fright, "Gene" O'Neill spoke a few lines as the mate. Lending a particularly happy atmospheric effect, under the feet of an audience of 30 lapped the restless...
...sisters did not so much die as join the ghosts that inhabited their house. Mary grew up and fell in love. Still Phoebe, dead but restless, threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...
President Lowell has teemed business the oldest of the arts, the newest of professions. As it takes its place among the older professions, it must and, to some extent, has recognized the challenge latent in their tinct of altruism. Today restless millions turn for economic leadership; history clearly shows the indifferent ruling class its way to destruction. The Age of the Machine has brought shorter hours for man's work. Culture of construction must follow or this new leisure is achieved in vain. Harvard shall not be backward in the expert consideration of these problems of transition...
...morning the Buncombe County Court House, one of the most lavishly furnished in the South, was filled. The shades were drawn and many electric lights gave a dramatic atmosphere to the scene. When the jury came back they gave no verdict, merely asked for further instructions. The defendants grew restless. John Thrash, deputy sheriff, followed the jury out, went to the rest room. Col. Lea thought he had entered the jury room and told him so when he came back. For a moment it looked like a real fight; then Col. Lea settled back into his chair...
...with disgust of a shrewd Manhattan lawyer who despises cultural inconsistencies and would like to destroy them. Superficially America's Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes, who when abnormally excited vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, both good friends of Author Ernst...