Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could hardly see the flowers for the McCormicks one afternoon last week in Chicago's Chester Johnson Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher...
...blackness of spiritual despair Theologian Barth-now married and professor of theology at the University of Bonn-has attracted an immense following. Like a wan light amid disillusion and doubt, Barthianism nourishes in German and Swiss universities. Religious socialists join in, go on working for social betterment although it will not change mankind. Man achieves nothing. Christian Philosopher Barth, thin, stooped, slightly weak-eyed but rather jolly, does not evangelize. He will not come to the U. S. because the U. S. is too worldly. Nevertheless his U. S. admirers-who are many-wish he would come because they believe...
...John Anderson, capable theatre critic of the New York Journal, has supplied one crowning touch of veracity to the French mastermind's lines. He never becomes sufficiently acquainted with De Brett's Peerage to learn that Sir Roger, the murderee, is not called Sir Ackroyd. The Fatal Alibi is wan in spots, but the last act hits a happy clip. Only the audience, the murderer, Sir Roger and Hercule Poirot can guess the solution of the crime...
...that occurred during, as well as before the game, the contest was a spectacular one, Harvard playing fast, well-planned hockey and Dartmouth, in contract, relying chiefly upon sheer strength and individual effort. As was to be expected, the Hanoverians laid special emphasis upon body checking and the strategy wan productive numerous spills and penalties. On one occasion, there were only two Dartmouth players on the ice in addition to the goal-tender, Hawkes. The latter, it might be added, more than did his share in defending the Big Green net, handing out numerous checks and other terms of bodily...
...Tucson watched the triangular action. In St. Mary's Hospital Patten Levings was unconscious. In Desert Sanatorium wan Alice Hilliard was expectant. That first day wind and rain forced Pilot Reiss down at Bellefonte, Pa., and McKeesport, Pa. He stayed over night at Columbus, Ohio. The second day winds up to 100 m. p. h. forced him to hedgehop past Indianapolis and Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. When he landed there near midnight he learned that he was no longer a savior, only a freight deliverer. Patten Levings had died. Miss Hilliard was in no great need of oxygen...