Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings...
Asked why he avoided social activities in Miami, vacationing Theatrical Producer John Golden quickly scribbled...
...Medical Association, upbraided State medical boards for not revoking the licenses of such addicts and medical societies for not ousting them from membership. Said he: "The number of medical narcotic addicts has been estimated to number one addict per 100 physicians. Their probable future offers little of professional or social value and much of liability and danger to the public in their continuation in the practice of medicine...
...Church to budget $12,000,000 in 1940. Last week Bishop Keeney was well satisfied with efforts to date: 227,000 units pledged. Spiritually, according to the Bishop, "Methodism is preparing to take the offensive again," and the Million Unit Fellowship is designed to lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week...
Picked out of a 5?-&-10? store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty...