Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McWhiney is definitely the superior sort of male who regards all women as merely biological instruments. He is the type, too, who is apt to dismiss with a pitying smile, the idea that women may be vitally interested in such serious subjects as politics, finance, international affairs...
...press suddenly bristled with charges that Britain sought another Munich agreement. This time it would be between five big powers, with the U. S. included, the U. S. S. R. not. Why had hypocritical Mr. Chamberlain sent this Riley man to Danzig without even consulting Parliament? "Signs of a serious set-back to the attempt to get Russia into the peace pact front have to be recorded today," Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye cabled the New York Times. He could scarcely have expected how momentously right and wrong he was to be proved in the next 48 hours...
...Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show off the air for a half-minute. But none of these little mishaps had any serious aftermath...
...surgeon would dare operate without rubber gloves. Sterilized, they protect patients from infection, protect the surgeon from accidental cuts and infection from patients. But so serious is Germany's rubber shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels...
...thought, was "very pleasant, lively and good; but-and here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned up in New Orleans after the Yankees captured the city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter...