Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home, king for a day, featured profusely by the three city papers (two of which are Republican). And why not-on a hot day when there's nothing else to talk about ! Synthetic ballyhoo still doesn't blind Indiana's majority to the shallowness of our self-satisfied Adonis...
...Began committee hearings on President Roosevelt's $2,660,000,000 "self-liquidating" loan program, introduced by Majority Leader Barkley...
...religious angle makes the Chicago packers' labor dispute unique, and it will help to shape the outcome, whether the decision is wrought over a council table or fired over a bloody barricade. For while Lewis has been selling them material self-betterment, another man has long been concerned with the packinghouse people's souls...
...reputed to be the world's greatest private Italian collection, in the name of the U. S. people, President Roosevelt thanked Storeman Kress for setting an example that is "a decided step in the realization of the true purpose of the National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York...
...Saga. A self-styled "little squirt anxious to be a tough guy," Paul Smith skipped through high school in Pescadero, Calif., at 14 set out to rub against the world. He jumped a harvest train, spent some time in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, rode freight trains east to Ontario for gold, found none, jumped another freight back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving...