Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Help to watch if anybody is sick, if required...
...three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing in to the curb. There was no collision...
...clear setting forth of the futility of religion as an effective force in meeting the problems of life." A hearty ''Amen" went up from the Catholic Action Society and the Legion of Decency. A Methodist and a Universalist official also nodded assent. Yet the Puritanical Watch & Ward Society, which ran Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude out of Boston in 1929, coolly doubted if O'Casey's work was "bad enough to be banned...
...teapot relaxes. As the moon swings to the full, Miss Harding's luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks back to the laborious business of restoring Miss Harding to the arms of her repentant husband...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...