Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the office of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
...good and met the fate of all who dare make the Screwball look like what he is-a five-letter word rhyming with drowsy. After putting in a lot of research work on it, Smiley turned in a story on a prominent prize fighter, which Screwball thought too good to use in his own paper. So he held it out, sold it to a magazine and pocketed the proceeds...
This conflict between ultra-modernity and Victorian morality, thought far from a new theme, is handled with such winning freshness and gentle sophistication, and such fascinating situations and characters rise out of the melee that extraordinary entertainment is guaranteed...
...recent Nieman Bequest, thought it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community... We are asked to expend the money in such a way as to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism," using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad... After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, The Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used to support... "in-service fellowships" (which) will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible...
...continues on his journey, to amuse himself he thinks aloud of the personalities and events which each landmark brings to his mind. Occasionally his thoughts are poetry, other times merely the smooth flowing, refreshing prose for which he has become known to such a wide range of readers. Every subject from philosophy to the sports of the English countryside are the topics of his thought...