Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out en masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt whizzed...
...event (see p. 15), and radio made a great to-do about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping...
Another man of God, in like case, wrote: "When, three weeks ago, I was living through the first long Sunday . . . I read the letters of the New Testament which were written in prison. There is joy and power...
...copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." On Sunday night, Dr. Buchman and his Groupers held a "National Meeting for Moral Re-Armament" in Constitution Hall...
...else. During Vernon's early slapstick days--his barber shop scene with Lew Fields, his gaudy, striped coats that are liable to start a national trend, his old-fashioned romance with Irene Foote--the picture proceeds at a light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real. But once Vernon and Irene are happily married, the sad curse of a story without "boy seeks girl" throws the picture into dreariness. To recapture some trace of excitement, the standby for heart-three--the World War--is sensationally...