Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Through the press last week flowed two contradictory currents of news on industrial unemployment. One current ran uphill to large headlines proclaiming a quick return to Prosperity. The other ran down- hill to accounts of breadlines and jobless distress. Behind headlines for prosperity was sound Republican politics to minimize and gloss over unemployment. Behind breadlines for the jobless was equally sound Democratic politics to blame the party in power for a serious labor slump...
SUBWAY WORK SEEN AS QUICK AID TO JOBLESS...
...concerned with elegant seductions in a belvedere. Those who still long for amorous speeches murmured above the polite creaking of a dress-shirt will find plenty of them in Laurence Eyre's comedy of the diplomatic corps. Chrystal Herne, a pleasant actress whose only disturbing habit is taking quick gulps of air when she must speak rapidly, impersonates the wife of a British plenipotentiary to Peru. He is more anxious to get an appointment to Rome than to retain his wife's love. She is immensely attracted to her husband's young attache, who remarks, while sprawling...
...fine afternoon the Princess went out with Count Alexander, to be present while the University Student's Association presented him with a gold medal for knowing his skis. H. R. H.'s personal adjutant. Colonel Manolescu, was not quick enough to prevent her from impulsively telling the students that she loved and would marry the Count. "It is a love match!" she cried, "The happiest sort of love match...
...story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there...