Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Since India is no Dominion, the person of her Viceroy, most important British administrative post, is not for her to choose but for the British Prime Minister to suggest. Labor politicians demanded that James Ramsay MacDonald pick a Labor peer for the post. He suggested Laborite Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell, president (1920-22) of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Under-Secretary of State for Air (1921-22), author of Love Triumphant, and Other Poems. This met with such violent Conservative, Liberal, and even Indian opposition on the basis of Lord Gorell's "inexperience," that...
...Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor fraternity. "Science and humanism must be linked together in our thinking...
...danger of accepting only high scholastic averages as a criterion, and still not go afield with vague demands for "qualities of leadership" they will escape using two standards that often prove to be anything but uniform. As far as possible, personal contact with the candidates would seem to suggest a good beginning for a sound judgment of their worth...
...group of fastidious Canadians at Medicine Hat, Alberta, once decided that the name of their town was too barbarous. They sent a letter to a great poet and asked him to suggest a new one. The poet advised them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen...
...another without the expense of another set. And it causes some confusion when Adrienne's husband wanders in and discovers that his friend is living in a replica of his wife's bedroom. All ends well, however, and despite the naughty promise which some of the lines suggest, the cast emerges as clean as a whistle. Room Of Dreams is pretty uninspired theatrical froth...