Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad makers, storytellers. They are also high-spirited: 23-year-old Dena Janes runs away with a truck driver, leaves him when...
...death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began to see them as people like other people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable. And because you saw them thus, curiously enough you became more fond of them. ..." Simply written and often moving, Those First Affections gives the impression that Sarah's father was unlucky in everything but his owlish, tactful, kind-hearted daughter...
...this may not mean much to the outside world, but to HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES it just goes to show the truth of the old proverb, PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH...
...Manhattan, famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise drew loud boos for Neville Chamberlain from 1,000 members of the United Czechoslovak Societies, declaring: "Chamberlain has not brought back peace with honor, but dishonor without peace!" Simultaneously 5,000 Manhattan high-school boys and girls of the Young Communist League marched with placards denouncing Hitler and Chamberlain until sent home by police...
...London, publicity-wise Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...