Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With "Nothing Sacred" and "Damsel in Distress" the University has a splendid double bill--one that is funny from start to finish. There is every sort of humor from the insane cracks of Gracie Allen to the superb clowning of Frederic March and Carole Lombard; even Fred Astaire's dances are done in a funny...
...Onions for the composition of TIME as it marches on. . . I find it difficult to get the kernel of each story without carefully reading every word from start to finish. As I haven't the time for such laborious reading, weeks and months slip by without my getting past the first three or four pages of each issue. . . . The foregoing criticism applies only to the longer yarns-I find the shorter squibs quite unobjectionable...
...when the average U. S. moppet is getting a tricycle from Santa Claus, the average Norwegian child is getting a pair of skis. In Norway children start to ski when they are 4, can usually jump 60 ft. when they are 8 and 150 ft. when they are 12. To encourage the sport, the Norwegian Ski Association each year gives 5,000 pairs of skis to children who cannot afford to buy them...
...only three years have made this novel kind of insurance a nationwide big little business: Clarence Rufus Rorem, accountancy expert, onetime associate director of the Rosenwald Fund, who establishes these plans for members of the American Hospital Association ; Homer Wickenden, onetime social worker, who raised the money to start the first hospital service in Manhattan, now general director of New York City's United Hospital Fund; Frank Van Dyk, fund-raising specialist, who sold the idea to 600,000 New Yorkers, and as executive director of the Associated Hospital Service of New York organized last week's convention...
...buyers had to do was sign a check and indicate where they wanted to start business. Mr. Whipple breaks even on the stores, but the buyers are then on terms of such intimacy with him that he thinks they will go on buying their hard ware from Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett. Says he proudly, looking at his stock on his new shelves: "Everything is in easy reach...