Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Nearly all these "reforms" (except the loan) were urged last spring by former Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, No. 1 Rutgers alumnus, no iron man (TIME, June 23). Last week as Chancellor Brüning banged his budget into shape he paused only once to jangle out an angry statement that the German Cabinet certainly did not approve what was being said in New York by Germany's cast-iron Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...whistled a much different tune from that of last Spring. In May and June, on his raceabout tour of Northern Italy, he hurled bombast from stumps and palace balconies, defied France, flayed other governments (especially Great Britain's) for clumsy mishandling of unemployment. But now, in October, his sap having cooled, II Duce spoke at calm, significant length...
There was a suppressed question as to her airworthiness. Last spring, to give her greater lifting power, she had been cut in two and a 45-ft. section inserted at the slice. A friend of Major G. H. Scott said he had made a remark "about a patched or mended shoe never being quite as sound as a new one." Was the new construction absolutely integral with the original? Might there be an uncalculated weakness at the middle? Might a gale buckle...
Engaged. Susie Virginia Pollard, daughter of Governor & Mrs. John Garland Pollard of Virginia, official hostess for her father since her mother's illness last spring, player of leading roles in the Junior Theatre Players (amateur) of Washington; and Herbert Lee Boatwright Jr., Washington attorney, Princeton man; in Richmond...
...Author. John Galsworthy, 63, read law at New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar, but disliked it; took to traveling and writing instead. So great is the fame of his Forsyte Saga that last spring a telephone exchange in Hacken sack, N. J. was named Galsworthy. He has a prejudice against cinematization, but his famed Old English (with Actor George Arliss) at last went Hollywood. Baldish, white-haired, with lined, long face, honest eyes, he looks his type: the mental and moral bulldog. He has written more than 50 novels, books of essays, plays. Some of them...