Word: needed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...helping those who need help during these trying times, but I can conceive of no worse way of doing so than by creating the fear psychology most newspapers are doing so much to engender...
...program which was interrupted by my wife's death a year ago. I still have two young daughters to provide for. World War veterans in Detroit and Michigan believe that the immediate payment of the Adjusted Service Certificates is warranted. Many veterans and their families are in dire need and the cash they would receive from the government would certainly go into immediate circulation. This should help considerably in alleviating distress during this period of depression and, in the opinion of many, hasten the return of prosperity...
...past three years undergraduate elections have been characterized by the inefficiency and laxity of the men in charge of these elections. The Student Council elections of 1929 and 1930 are notable examples and need no review here...
Academicians need not have been surprised at a controversial picture from Charles Dana Gibson. Now bald and 63, he was the Peter Arno of the 1890's. From his nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...reporter need ask M. Morand what he thinks of Manhattan's skyline: it is all down here in ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter...