Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want and none of that forced labor which is to be found under the surface of the totalitarian countries. There are very few people in France who do not eat and drink well. There are still very few who do not manage to live within their incomes and save something...
...made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families of men shot after the trials in Moscow. In the Soviet Union they are subject to confiscations of property...
...healing and balm. To some other readers, the President's wife seems the Pollyanna of columnists. Even when, last fortnight, she reproved Dramatic Critics Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune for their blunt dismissal of Save Me the Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote Columnist Roosevelt, "seemed to infer that because this play does not teach a great lesson or pick any particular people to pieces, it is worthless...
That raising rates is merely a palliative has long been the contention of almost everyone except railroad officers and investors. ICC's Carroll Miller took occasion to reiterate his favorite belief that nothing can save the roads from Government ownership except consolidation into a single unified national system. How Labor will take the scaling down of duplicate services is not hard to imagine. Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, reiterated his favorite belief that "some of the roads must go through the wringer." How banks and insurance companies, who are heavily interested in rail securities...
STRANGERS-Claude Houghton-Macmillan ($2.50). Story of a happily married Englishman who drifts into a love affair with the daughter of an old friend, keeps the relationship on a high-minded plane, and returns in time to save his son's life. A thin but convincing account of a familiar triangle, a thinner and unconvincing account of emotional difficulties solved semi-mystically...