Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite directions by the charm of habit, and by the charm of novelty. Not only in politics, but in literature, in art, in science, in surgery and mechanics, in navigation and agriculture, nay, even in mathematics, we find this distinction. Every where there is a class of men who cling with fondness to whatever is ancient, and who, even when convinced by overpowering reasons that innovation would be beneficial, consent...
Died. Princess Louise, 91, Duchess of Argyll, great-aunt of King George VI, daughter of Queen Victoria, known as the "Royal Rebel" for her interest in art and for marrying a mere Marquis, later raised to Dukedom (first English Princess in 350 years to marry outside royalty); after long illness; in London...
...peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to thousands of readers. Craftwork rather than Art, they fall into several time-smoothed categories...
...Jean Tousseul's Jean Clarambaux (Lippincott, $3) is a long, gentle, nostalgic, sentimental novel of life in a Belgian hamlet before and during the German occupation of 1914-18. Though written with no little art, it has the warm, excessive, disconcerting and soporific sweetness of a bottomless feather...
...works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth, can almost let a smile cruse his stormy countenance...