Word: stray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands superior to them in originality and wit. One of the chief critical charges brought against Sandburg has been that he lacked an integrated philosophy that would guide his writing, that his poems have too frequently been mere expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard in crowds. As a poet he has been like a radio tuned in on several stations at once, getting bits of preaching, bits of political talk, bits of good music, bits of the chattering, discordant static of U. S. urban life. These several voices he has never before...
...Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University. If a representative from either mail house appears to see how things are going, he is admitted only with a plant chaperone to make sure he does not stray out of bounds. Scrap paper and trial pages from the presses are impounded lest prices, layouts or even ideas fall into the wrong hands. Now that the forms are closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this...
...lope along near the equator, where the terrestrial magnetic field is weak, and keep up to, or very close to, the speed of light. Other days they go by way of the polar regions, where the strong magnetic field slows them down. As to why the same signal should stray one way one day and another the next, Dr. Stetson could only suggest: "An unknown cosmic phenomenon...
Ballet Master Massine travels this year, as he did last, in a trailer attached to his powerful Lincoln car, keeps his own chef who feeds him Russian food. Massine made trouble in Los Angeles as a result of a soft-hearted moment in Vancouver where he adopted a stray dog gazing at him through a restaurant window. The creature became so devoted to Massine that he followed him on stage at a Los Angeles performance...
...Edmund Lowe) sets about solving the death of a gentleman jockey, but he finds himself with two other murders and what he considers a lovely girl (Virginia Bruce) on his hands before he is through. Yet in spite of a plot that confused our untrained mind, and a few stray remarks like "Elementary, m'dear Watson," which belong to Doyle, not Van Dine, the picture is a satisfactory piece, and rounds out an entertaining program...