Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower-third of the U. S. he is a savior; to economic royalists "that madman in the White House-" This week Commerce Department economists, having broken down national income payments by years, 1929-39, found that, despite marked shifts during depression-bottom years, the basic national-income pattern in 1939 was virtually the same...
...staid, collective conformity. To Academicians, as usual, went the pick of the 16 prizes. Painter Abram Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. . . . The Academy can afford to wait...
...Lamour's glamour neither gains nor loses. Nothing else is missing. The "South Sea" accent remembered about half the time, the scene with the villainous dancing partner and his bull-whip, the application to the great yellow moon sung heath the weeping willow tree--all are in the familiar pattern. The artificial eyelashes flutter and Miss Lamour reestablishes her position as a close second to the Lampoon's Sheridan in Hollywood's March of Crime...
According to a letter which the club has sent to its alumni, the plot includes "more legs, more laughter and more love than ever before." The theme itself is one of divorce, fortune-hunting, spite and thwarting, about which weaves a pattern of dances and ballets...
...other obvious reason for Swedish nonintervention: Stockholm is within very easy bombing distance of Berlin as well as Leningrad. Last week a curious deal was reported arranged between Sweden and Germany. Premier Hansson's Government agreed to buy all the arms of Swedish make and pattern which Germany captured in Poland. Germans had no use for guns of a different type from their own. What made the deal curious was that the only imminent use Sweden could make of them would be against Germany's ally Russia...