Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly odd characters who live through the two decades (1910-30) spanned by the book, the least forgettable are: Mrs. Tregunter who lives on weak tea, lettuce leaves and hatred of the Jews; Rabbi Shulman who has the Talmud on the brain; Benny Edelman whose rescue of Tommie Wright from drowning induces Philanthropist Emmanuel to give a Magnolia Street party, which brings the Jews and gentiles together temporarily. But Mrs. Wright sees Benny naked after the rescue; their subsequent marriage cuts Benny off from his Jewish family for good...
...directly responsible for the livelihood of at least one distressed family, resident in the same block. There are now 20,000 such desperately needy families in New York City. Director of the plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie, is the daughter of Arthur...
...flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another of the Department's planes the Colonel still puts in enough hours of actual...
Critic Mumford was followed by Henry Wright, foremost U. S. authority on housing conditions, who astonished many by saying that apartments on semi-fashionable Riverside Drive are "slums or potential slums." Reason: They admit light only to the front of the building...
Cram has said of him: "I can honestly say that as an abstract type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that...