Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apology for his vice, once wrote a book about it, regards it as an interesting part of the most interesting personality he knows. When the French police, who had always looked the other way, arrested France's Public Opium Smoker No.1 on charges of opium smoking last summer, wealthy French Elégants suspected that M. Cocteau had got in the habit of giving it to his friends among the poor-sailors, waiters, etc., on whom the authorities, for fear they might turn to crime to satisfy their expensive craving, crack down. Last week Jean Cocteau was found guilty...
Thus the Juniper tree Never ceases to be Since observed by yours faithfully God. This summer Monsignor Knox retires from Oxford to execute a commission given him by England's Roman Catholic bishops: a new translation of the Vulgate (Latin) scriptures...
...listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
...scalping Comanches, are taking their bi-yearly toll. Concluding winter athletics are vieing desperately with commencing spring activities. Class elections are pitting friend against friend, while honor, influence, and politics set a dizzy pace. Seniors are searching wearily for a life-long job, and many others grope for a summer's employment--which only causes a variety of muddy footsteps in the basement of University Hall. House dances are flitting momentarily across the weekend horizon, glowing like meteors for a brief instant before expiring with a dull thud. Employer and employee, like two antlered moose, have clashed their horns...