Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving a life term in prison...
Political friends, political enemies, political bystanders had been waiting four weeks for him to give them their cues for his second term. When the funeral was over Vice President Garner took him aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having...
Direly though Franklin Roosevelt needed more such men for his second term, his need and their departure were kept as dark as possible. "Help Wanted" signs would merely multiply his troubles with jobseekers...
Slalom (H. R. Sokal, Vienna) is the first full-length skiing picture with a plot to be shown in the U. S. It takes its name from the skier's term for a downhill race around obstacles. Slalom's plot runs downhill all the way, is inconsequential except as a frame for the finest skiing and skiing photography the cinema has yet displayed...
...Radiomen's term for a station low in wattage, listening area and prestige...