Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow-workers roused his interest in science. He put himself through London University, emigrated to the U. S., returned for the War which "completely reorganized my life." Music struck him all of a heap; Dostoyevsky was a "revelation." He had an unsuccessful love affair, tried to scatter the memory among other women. One of them got a divorce to become his mistress, died before their experiment had completely failed. Now, middleaged, unambitious, disillusioned, he waits to see what will happen with the rest of his life, has no high hopes, except some day to write "an enormous critical study...
With troops, tanks and tear gas President Hoover succeeded in driving the Bonus Expeditionary Force out of Washington fortnight ago. But that did not break up the tatterdemalion army and scatter it home. With diplomacy replacing armed force, the rest of the job was accomplished last week by the combined efforts of Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., David Barry, brother-in-law of Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, and "Eddie" McCloskey. scrappy little Mayor of Johnstown...
...honor. The Red propagandists said three words: "Peace, Bread and Land." "They knew the people. . . . They whispered three words, then waited three months, then acted." Outlawed, the Lancers tried to win their way back to Poland, hid in the forests, finally had to desert their beloved horses and scatter. Boleslavski took shelter with a mad woman who thought he was her dead husband returned from the War. Mixing with a mob of soldiers he got away to Moscow and another life. Way of the Lancer, written in collaboration with Helen Woodward, is the March choice of The Literary Guild...
Cock of the Air (Howard Hughes), which was vigorously censored before release, emerges as a not particularly happy Wartime farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...
...play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...