Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem to have made one step towards the opposite direction by pointing the Czarist "drang nach" Wellesley, Smith and Vassar. The Muscovite Maidens--open to all girls of White Russian blood or sentiments--will for the moment continue their activities of "making and wrapping bandages...
...continue to overlook the serious direction in which a little vodka has turned student heads. The names of the leaders--"V. Leggakacheff, S. Pullizpantzoff, X. Wachtoff, and D. Ginsburgovitch"--have already been revealed. It remains only for the crusading "Yale News" to make university authorities fully aware of the "White menace" and to send all remmants of Czaritst Imperialism back to Lenin...
France, inquiring for 20,000 trucks, placed a $3,500,000 order for 2,000 with Yellow Truck & Coach. Studebaker landed another French truck order, White Motor Co. another. Goodrich had orders for 645,000 feet of A. R. P. fire hose from Britain, Hewitt Rubber for 1,300,000 feet...
...talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning a fighting woman to the earth by her pregnant belly), without any slackening into the merely melodramatic. He achieves all this...