Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evil's Root...
...answer, 'What caused it?' When considered at first glance, it might appear that the causes are the World War and the world-wide depression which followed it. But these causes are not adequate to explain the political and economic phenomena which confront us, we must look deeper. The root-causes are, I think, changes in the race composing the nation and in the environment in which we live. The best form of government for any people at any time is the child of race and environment...
...Navy during the War. In 1919 he returned to Cambridge and in three years he had his law degree. To Manhattan he took his young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover picked him as a likely investigator to root around amid bankruptcy scandals in Federal courts. Ten years after he left Harvard, he found himself acting dean...
...bone in the brain is an exceedingly rare freak. Yet it may happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
Smartly adapted by Wells Root from All Good Americans, Paris Interlude is a peewee inspection of French bars and barflies in the Lindbergh era. In it Otto Kruger, the most bedridden leading man in Hollywood, croaks through his pillowcase, Edward Brophy shuffles through the role of a disheveled newshawk and Madge Evans gives one more of the ingratiating performances which have lately made her the busiest ingenue in Hollywood. Good sequence: a fashion show, designed by MGM's famed Gilbert Adrian...