Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that wars and rumors of wars, and not soldiers' bonuses, are in the making, where oh where are the Veterans of Future Wars? Have they all joined the goldfish-swallowing brigade...
...season is to U. S. art what the Broadway season is to the U. S. theatre. It started off with a mild pop last week when the renovated Whitney Museum, after a four-month delay, threw open its doors at last, revealing a fountain filled with goldfish in the lobby, four new galleries filled mostly with familiar U. S. moderns from the Museum's permanent collection...
...London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case of trouble...
...were slogans and sign boards, witticisms touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude...
...commencement season opened, college presidents, who differ from other manufacturers in shipping their goods only once a year, began to show their 1939 product. They expected to turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...