Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some idle women made an effort to assemble amazing 'war costumes' that betrayed their vague nostalgia for an officer's uniform. Raincoats closed with slide fasteners made a startling appearance in the restaurants of the moment, as well as the most tailored jackets you have ever seen, at which you glanced a second time to find the epaulets, the decorations, and the service stripes. And sometimes, on my word, you found them...
...short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...
Last week these three men had a simultaneous and peculiar attack of nostalgia when they learned that old Dr. Charles William Super, onetime president of Ohio University, had died in Athens, Ohio at 97. They had good reason to remember Dr. Super. When they were undergraduates together at Ohio University more than 40 years ago, President Super rose solemnly before the whole college one day, pointed a solemn finger at them and cried: "Gillilan, Shepard and Johnson-I haven't the slightest doubt that all three of you will end up in a penitentiary...
...monument to the career of 58-year-old Gus Edwards, who served as its technical adviser, The Star Maker, shrewdly aimed at the U. S. cinema public's demonstrated appetite for nostalgia and precocity, should be a turning point in the career of another veteran showman. The picture resulted from a meeting in Hollywood last year between ailing, retired Impresario Edwards and oldtime Moviemaker Charles R. Rogers, who had just been fired as production head of Universal. With the Edwards life story in his briefcase, unemployed Producer Rogers set out to do a picture on his own, went...
...itinerant newspaperman was one of the most colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk. Today these footloose reporters and copyreaders have nearly all died or settled down. The old timers who are left look back with nostalgia on the gaudier days of their profession, but stick to their jobs if they have jobs. Luckier than Newspaperman Broun last week were these hoary and, in their spheres, famed and typical oldtimers...