Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency]," continued the Senator from Idaho. "But . . . that brings up the most important pre-convention question that we can consider, and that question is : 'Who is going to determine the [candidate's] fitness and how is it going to be determined?' " A political lone wolf who has spent a lifetime shunning partisan alignments, Senator Borah naturally feared that the Republican nominee might be chosen "in secret conclave behind closed doors long after midnight." "This," he warned, "is not a very good year . . . for exclusiveness in the matter of selecting a candidate for the Presidency...
...aard-wolf is a repulsive, hyena-like little animal which lives in colonies underground and is becoming extinct because, like the others above, it is not very good at avoiding collectors who want it for its rarity...
When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...novel can be made to tell almost anything, from the subconscious thoughts of a sleeping postman (James Joyce's Work in Progress) to how to mind the baby (Viña Delmar's Bad Girl). Josephine Lawrence's novels tell how the wolf can sneak up to a middle-class door, gobble up plain everyday householders before they know it. Years Are So Long (TIME, July 9, 1934) showed that there is often no home for the aged, even if they have done more with their youth than gather rosebuds. If I Have Four Apples neatly demonstrates...
...whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy McCord ultimately dismisses Baritone Walter Woolf King (formerly Walter Wolf) in favor of Tenor Slezak...