Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of the cotton crop had been plowed under. For this Agriculture Adjustment Administration was slowly paying out $100,000,000 bonus. Good weather made the yield of the other three-quarters far above normal. Last week spot cotton was selling for a shade over 9? per lb. (last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering...
...back with a note from Mr. Rockefeller's secretary: "Mr. Rockefeller is deeply appreciative of your kind thought . . . also of your beautiful letter. "Mr. Rockefeller and his friends think it would be an improvement if the necktie could be brought to a different shade of blue, and we are taking the liberty of sending you the portrait, express prepaid, and one of Mr. Rockefeller's ties which represents the shade of blue which he has been in the "habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution...
...National Shade Tree Conference is an annual gathering of men who raise and sell trees for landscape decoration, other men who study trees for pure science, still others who are professionally interested in national reforestation. Last week about 200 such men met at the New York Botanical Garden for their ninth conference. The tree which most occupied their dendrological talk was the stately American elm, which a blight has begun to attack. Unforgotten is the disease which wiped out practically every U. S. chestnut tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...ponderous slopes have been visited by no picnic-parties; the journey is too far afield for weekday trippers; but some few fellow-writers have ventured into her shade and have returned with enthusiastic and grateful tales. Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Van Vechten, supposedly sensible and certainly popular authors, have sat admiringly at her feet. When Hemingway was 23, just married, and learning to write in Paris, he went to Gertrude Stein with a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson. He sat, listened, looked at her "with passionately interested" eyes, returned again & again. She read and criticized...