Word: warm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basically nothing but enormous sheds, the main exposition buildings, stuccoed in "warm ivory" and unobtrusive pastel shades, owe much of their exoticism to "elephant towers," whose angles of light and shadow are softened by the Bay's hazy atmosphere. Mercifully softened also is the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, a nondescript steeple which serves to carry a 44-bell carillon. Last week San Francisco critics bore down hard on the Tower. Said Sculptor Beniamino Bufano: "It should have been a mosque or a minaret." Said Sculptor Ralph Stackpole: "The thing is up. What can you do about...
...dogs are packed in cans invented by a German-Jewish refugee named Leo Katz, whom Mr. Laemmle picked up in Zurich last year. At one end of each can is a compartment containing chemicals. When the compartment is punctured, contact with air makes the chemicals hot enough to warm the hot dogs, which are then plucked from the other...
...Speaker Bankhead of the House was a Warm Springs visitor. Points for the press: Everything about the reorganization of House committees was sweet and smooth; there would be no such thing as "Must" legislation next session...
...people A. P. was fed up with was apparent last week: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau blandly declared that SEC had consulted him before taking action. But Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles, also charged with bank supervision, was known to have rushed to Warm Springs to complain to Franklin Roosevelt that the Reserve had not been consulted until two days before SEC cut loose. Here was the sort of division in the enemy's ranks which a great fighter like Amadeo Giannini could not fail to spot. Holding his tongue with difficulty as Transamerica stock broke a hefty...
Yesterday was a nice day, but sort of dull. There was nothing cosmic in it; it was really trivial: too warm to ski, too wet to play touch football. So the four roommates were in their rooms, sitting quietly...