Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that after the passing of this depression, when we can examine it in retrospect, we shall need to consider . . . what action may be taken by the Government to remove possible governmental influences which make for instability and to better organize mitigation of the effect of depression. It is as yet too soon to constructively formulate such measures...
Labor. Secretary James John Davis, preparing last week to surrender his office to a successor, might be pardoned a sentence or two in retrospect. He began: "From 1921 to 1930 it has been my privilege to have served . . . under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, during a most important period in the industrial life of our Nation. . . . Let me briefly mention some of these changes. . . . There has been a gradual decrease in working hours and a betterment of working conditions, with increases in wages . . . with the consequent benefits in the way of better homes, improved standards of living, better schools, civic...
After 1876, when it was purchased by the late Richard Kyle Fox, the Gazette acquired a certain complaisance; the Richardson case became in retrospect "the most beautiful of illicit love tragedies.'' But under Publisher Fox's energetic direction the Gazette became not only a famed arbiter and promoter of sporting events, but a sensational forerunner of today's tabloids. The No. 1 writer was Samuel A. Mackeever who, as "Paul Prowler" and "The Old Rounder," showed the way for modern broadway colyumists. In its new pink dress, with full page drawings of dashing males cavorting with...
...retrospect, Billboard, theatrical weekly, released elaborate statistics on the 1929-30 season. Findings: 72 theatres with seating capacity for 75,314 people had housed 286 productions. There were 62 musicomedies, 195 legitimate attractions, 29 repertory plays. Based on the theory that 100 performances signifies a hit, 87% of the legitimate shows failed, a mortality rate 2% higher than the previous season. Of musicomedies, 69% failed, 10% more than the year before...
...began to take stock of the past season. Subtracting the six that quit last week (Journey's End, Berkeley Square, International Revue, A Month in the Country, The Plutocrat, Subway Express), 32 shows remained on Broadway, seven less than were running at the same time last year. In retrospect, some unique features of the past season could be noted...