Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in the future. To the Florida Man such an instrument is a jook-organ and nothing else...
...Appraising Western reaction to Tom Dewey's first G.O.P. campaign speech last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 18), Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota dryly reported "rather a deep interest in what Mr. Dewey's policies will be." Aspirant Dewey in his second full-dress speech last week
...Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
...three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy...
Because of young Benito Mussolini's fleshy romance, The Cardinal's Mistress, and young Adolf Hitler's well-meaning water colors, citizens of the world now have some reason for a nervous interest in the problems of frustrated writers and artists. Ranking with these dictators' grade C works is another novel brought to light by the French literary magazine, Revue des Deux Mondes...