Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words in the Oxford Dictionary are dated, and as the layman thumbs through this Supplement he will see the kind of terms the last generation has added to the language in biochemistry, wireless telegraphy and telephony, mechanical and air transport, psychoanalysis, the cinema. In London last month urbane George Stuart Gordon, president of Oxford's Magdalen College, half-humorously commented: "It [the Supplement'] gives the impression of a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, equally harassed by its pleasures and its pains. ... I find too many words expressing contempt for age -'dodderer,' 'back number...
Mary of Scotland (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by the Theatre Guild). Nearly 400 years after her birth, any new play or book about Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, is news in the hope that it may explain why Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned...
...rest, Scribner's is conventional Christmas, with the exception of a disappointing analysis of consumers by Stuart Chase and an involved labor-N.R.A. tract by Benjamin Stolberg. There is intellectual nostalgia from Edmund Wilson, and then holly gets under way with the Abbe Dimnet, James Gould Cozzens, and reviews by William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Phelps, as usual, finds all right with the world; the Abbe has played forerunner by finding that God's in His Heaven...
...House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that the Administration was "guilty of great experimentation" in its efforts to harness the tide...
Enlisting the aid of Dr. W. M. Conant '79, who thereby became the Varsity's first physician, Stuart whipped his men into topnotch condition by stiff training unknown to previous teams...