Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...
Died. Thomas William Jackson, 67, humorist; by his own hand (revolver); in Mineral Wells. Tex. Most famed of his works was On a Slow Train Through Arkansas.* one of 13 pulp booklets widely sold for 25? each by "news butchers" on Western and Midwestern local and "accommodation" trains 30 years...
...Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist was his only injury. That was the worst wreck of the race.* Fifty miles farther on two more cars skidded with only minor hurts and the rest of the field was warned to slow down while the wreckage was cleared away...
...manner; his movements are almost feminine. His few intimate friends he can count on the fingers of one hand. He likes comfort, order, a settled family life. He was so fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly superstitious, the round numbers that have partitioned his life please his "sense of mathematical clarity...
...prize), was an editor of the late Broom, wrote for the late Dial. In 1929 he became associate editor of The New Republic. Translator, poet and champion of his literary generation, he has published one book of verse (Blue Juniata), numerous translations from the French, many a literary article. Slow of speech, heavyset, jovial, he is a devotee of deck tennis, an addict to fishing. Though not a member of the Communist Party, he has become "politicalized," writes with a strong leftish slant...