Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the world's eyes on war headlines, with grave-faced Franklin Roosevelt dominating the U. S. scene (see p. p), 1940 Presidential aspirants had tough going last week. Hardest-hit was New Hampshire's plump New Deal denouncer, Senator Styles Bridges, who had planned a Western speaking tour. Least affected was Thomas Edmund Dewey, New York County's District Attorney, the jug-eared Galahad who smites crime...
...crisis, Englishmen crave an apt quotation from Shakespeare. The London News-Chronicle performed great public service last week by discovering in Hamlet (Act IV Scene 4): "Goes it against the main of Poland, Sir? . . . Yes, it is already garrisoned...
...lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
...hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so, "it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...