Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitalist, not counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special...
...Commons: ¶ Cheered whirlwind efforts to secure British control of the sea and air by Air Minister Viscount Swinton and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare, who is popularizing his new slogan "BRITAIN MEANS BUSINESS...
...rare mood of humility, Castoria's Blair, an amiable whirlwind who habitually uses three telephones at once, referred his colleagues to the recent rash of books debunking the proprietary medicine industry, admitted: "We realize that to sell goods, advertising must have a punch. But we must fight to maintain our high standards, in an effort to eliminate the unscrupulous manufacturer. The packaged medicines industry has fought its way through gradual and quickening changes until it is outstanding for its exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise...
...merits. Yet at the same time none of the characters is lacking in depth. The plot concerns itself with the tragic childhood of a young boy subjected to the inexorable tyranny of an unjust mother. Buffeted by the harsh tribulations of unhappy domestic life, he becomes engulfed in a whirlwind of despair which barely escapes culmination in a terrible fate. It is not until his psychological problem is fully understood by his father, a victim of unhappy matrimony, that he finds solace in the maxim that it is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune...
...University of Rochester does not have to worry about money. The generosity of Kodakman George Eastman, of many another proud, rich citizen who participated in a whirlwind fund-raising campaign in 1924, left it with $33,000,000 in buildings and equipment, a $51,000,000 endowment that ranks fifth in the U. S. The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the quality of its president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower...