Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adaptabilities of Harry Lloyd Hopkins are equally diverse. He is at home in the slums, planning improvements, and in his rich friends' boxes at race tracks, picking winners. He can talk with equal charm to dear old ladies and to glamor girls, can sit with groups of serious thinkers, or join the boys in the back room. Since he got rid of his stomach ulcer last December and recuperated at Ambassador Joe Kennedy's house in Palm Beach, he can eat and drink more freely than he has for years, and have more fun. Yet he still...
Cliff Knoble was doing all right until January of 1937. A serious young man, he had worked his way up from male stenography via International Correspondence Schools to head a firm of his own. His Business Promotion Corp. had 14 employes, some fairly profitable accounts with Chrysler and other automobile dealers who bought his sales ideas. But when Michigan auto workers went on strike dealers no longer felt like spending money. Soon business for Cliff Knoble dried up. Last week the consequences of Cliff Knoble's personal depression blossomed in a full-page advertisement in the Detroit Free Press...
Undialable on some old-fashioned radio sets, and heard only within a radius of 75 miles, WQXR today broadcasts more quality music per hour than any other station in the U. S., holds the position of No. 1 station for serious Manhattan music-lovers. Its estimated 53,000 listening families are among the most faithful and regular in the radio field. Of its 74-odd weekly hours of broadcasting about 63 are devoted to music, 40 of them to symphonic and other serious compositions, 17 to light classics, six to popular tunes. Swing bands, comedians, amateur hours and similar...
...Harvard-Yale football game, the greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
Died. John Van Alstyn Weaver, 44, literary journeyman and husband of Actress Peggy Wood; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs. In 1921, having taken exception to an observation in H. L. Mencken's American Language that nothing serious could be written in slang, he published a book of poems (In American), at Mencken's suggestion, to disprove...