Word: strand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...
...Greatly daring, the English Folk Cookery Association invited French Ambassador Aimé de Fleuriau to their "May Dinner" at Simpson's-in-the-Strand (a studiously English restaurant directed by Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith who also directs numerous de luxe London hotels including Claridge's and the Savoy...
Maamme! Maamme! Our Fatherland! Oh, sacred word sound high! As on our fathers' soil we stand, No hill nor vale, nor sunny strand, Nor fertile plain 'neath southern sky Can with our bleak North...
...started the magazine Camera Work under amazing, pugnacious Alfred Stieglitz. Beside Photographer Stieglitz, they were: Edward Steichen (now photogra-pher-in-chief to the Conde Nast publica-tions), Gertrude Kasebier and the late Clarence White. Also included in last week's exhibition were prints by the younger Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Ed- ward Weston. The work of these photographers has often been shown, always been praised. Prints on view last week were admirable, priced at from $20 for the work of modest Edward Weston to the $1.000 which didactic Alfred Stieglitz thought his prints were worth. Many critics paused...
Barbara Stanwyck is a 23-year-old Brooklyn girl who tried stenography and a telephone switchboard before she landed a chorus job on the Strand Roof. In a show called Keep Kool she did an imitation of the late Louis Wolheim in The Hairy Ape. She moved through the Follies and a few other musical shows before her first straight role in The Noose. In Burlesque she made theatrical history. Another of her current pictures, Illicit, is one of the year's best...