Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepmother country'' she found that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that...
...White House did not rate Mr. Woodring a first-class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936 did Harry Woodring become a problem. Franklin Roosevelt met that problem the easy way: he successively saved Harry Woodring's face and pleased his friend, Mrs. Harry Woodring, by upping the Assistant first to Acting, then...
This week the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. (the Northern body) issued a bit of pleasant warm-weather reading for its 1,953,734 communicant members. During its last fiscal year the church took in $40,551,108, an increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...
...assorted collection of city folks who go to Goshen as a last resort of horse & buggy days will remember last week's Hambletonian as the one with the best weather. But to seasoned trotting men, the story of Lawrence Sheppard's master stroke of horse trading will serve as a subject of discussion for many a dull winter evening...
Customers of hot-weather music have no very intense convictions about what is played to them. This fact is known to every conductor, every musician who plays Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with his eyes shut. In Chicago's Ravinia Park last fortnight, to give the program committee some ideas for next summer's series by the Chicago Symphony, questionnaires were handed to the 8,000 people who went to concerts during the week. Only 550 bothered to answer the questionnaire...