Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Sholtz is a 46-year-old Brooklyn German who most surprisingly capped his career as President of the Florida Chamber of Commerce by getting himself elected Governor in 1932. In Tallahassee, Governor Sholtz's career was notable for the amiability he showed toward Florida horse and dog race-track owners. Following a series of articles written for Publisher Moe Annenberg's Miami Tribune by a onetime pressagent for Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park, named Ollie Gore, Florida's State Senate last May adopted a resolution for an investigation of the former Governor...
...words, as in bathing suits and men's manners toward women, taboos change with the times. Fifty years ago the word leg was not used in polite mixed company. Today, at respectable dinner tables, words are casually uttered that would make Victorians blush, blanch or burst. Last week a college professor made a scientific report on the use of words that are still "socially questionable" in some circles...
...morning of Oct. 15, 1899 (goes her story), that drunken, 18-year-old Allen Britt (or Albert), a sturdy downriver buck, strode into Housemaid Frankie's St. Louis bedroom with another woman. When Frankie ordered him to leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have...
...Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...
...religion at all is today a matter of great controversy. A State commission, established in 1929, spent four years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled that Shrine Shintoism is a religion. On the other hand the Government, while showing partiality toward it. has tried to pass it off as a form of politeness to departed heroes, like D. A. R.-ism in the U. S. Christianity has 300,000 followers in Japan. Last week U. S. Presbyterians, precisely like the Japanese, were arguing over whether Shintoism is a religion. Reason...