Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year, and the U. S. Public Health Service is out to top its 1937 record of catching 74,000 fleas, 22,000 rats...
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these...
...Verdians are apt to titter when, in the lush triumphal scene of Aïda, a gaudily festooned white horse clatters on the boards of the stage. But to Anna, the mare which for almost 25 years has appeared at the Metropolitan in Aïda, that scene is serious stuff. In her younger days Anna also acted in Ben Hur and The Sheik. Last week, Anna, 36 years old, had a birthday party fit for a queen...
Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...