Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an industrialist and executive applauded these words-but not all. Potent Powerman Wendell Willkie (Commonwealth & Southern) proceeded to hop on Mr. Dies with both feet. Mr. Willkie observed that when Congressional committees were harrying him and his fellow businessmen, he had kept mum lest he be accused of self-interest. But, said he, "Obviously the men under investigation now [by Dies] are men of completely contrary belief to mine. . . . The democratic process cannot go on and will be gradually undermined if men can be put on the witness stand without protection of counsel and without any adequate opportunity...
...Armistice Day medley will be the featured music while the band forms the letters HARLOW to the tune of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and a cannon shape from which it will shoot groups of players to spell ARMY...
...hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...
Until last week, English readers were in about the same case as the British Admiralty. Unlike his fellow captain Luckner's writings, Captain Nerger's book on his raiding exploits was not generally known outside Germany. The first account in English is by one of his prisoners. Roy Alexander, an Australian wireless operator, spent nine months in one of the two mine compartments which served as brig for the Wolfs sardined, polyglot prisoners (100 when he,arrived, 400 at the peak...
Last week the Nickersons and their fellow Buckramites motored up to Dutchess County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches...