Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newcomers arrived in Washington sometime after the turn of the century. They are the active stagemanagers who keep the official actors moving rapidly from one dining room set to the next. They are mostly Wet. They play bridge and poker, go in for costume parties. Their parties are less exclusive than the Cave-dwellers', but they seldom give their guest lists to the newspapers...
Bird In Hand. Playwright John Drinkwater heretofore has dealt chiefly with such authentic characters as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee. It is strange but not unsatisfactory to see him turn now to less historic folk, men and women who are caricatured for the sake of a good time...
...fashioned fellow who learned-and still understands-the Commandments run thus: 6th: Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today, Deuteronomy & Exodus concur: 6th: murder 7th: adultery 8th: stealing-ED. Secretary Morton
...factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became "a landmark on the national scene as familiar as the eagle on its dollars and the cornfields on its plains." But in 1914 Ford caught the public, that is the journalistic imagination, by his announcement...
...Swaim '31 stroked the winning crew to a victory over the shell stroked by P. H. Watts '31, which in turn left the crew with R. I. McKesson '31 setting the beat behind in a hard fought race over the winding course...