Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
...agreed finally that they would go this week. To each U. S. correspondent Hore-Belisha was introduced separately by amiable Novelist Ian Hay, public relations counsel for the War Office, to each he said a few pleasant words. Then on to the Air Ministry the newsmen trooped, took tea and whiskey with Sir Kingsley Wood while pretty girl-members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force offered cakes and sherry...
Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...
Last week Dr. Ernest Gladstone Richardson, new Methodist Bishop of New Jersey, appointed new pastors to 35 of the 37 "vacant" M. P. pulpits. He pronounced the experience "most trying." For on Sunday the 37 diehards, backed by their bristling flocks, took their stand for Methodist Protestantism, made ready to repel invaders. This they accomplished peacefully, however. In most of the churches, new pastors courteously claimed the pulpits, were courteously refused, departed quietly-or even remained to hear a diehard's sermon...
...eleven years K. T. Keller has had only three vacations (fishing). He has cut out figure skating, at which he once excelled, because it took too much time. A rounding paunch has been the penalty, more time for work the reward. He plays golf abominably ("I get quite a thrill if I break 100"), avoids bridge for more than a tenth of a cent "because it gets too serious and I don't have the time to devote to the game...