Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was 11, Johnny started to caddy at the Omaha Field Club, contributed his earnings of 50? a day toward the support of the ten Goodman children after their mother died and their happy-go-lucky father wandered off to try his luck in Wyoming. A likable little towhead, Johnny soon found himself the pet of the club members, was encouraged to practice with their sticks on the back part of the links. The first time he played nine full holes of the club course he shot a 37, one over par. That was in the 1923 caddies...
...Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, stands a 24-ft. figure of Orpheus, demigod of Music, sinewy and poised in bronze, with his great lyre lifted and one hand just sprung from the strings. In a circle of fountains below him eight listeners, wakened from death, turn outward and upward toward the music...
...jointed sophomoric trifles like College Swing, Turn Off the Moon. Paramount's net income for last year was $6,045,103. This year's budget, covering 58 planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table; The Grade Allen Murder Case...
...Toward the last third of the journal, when Homer is in his 40s, he begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...
...remarked that the most important thing is to work toward the realization of the fundamental principle and cope with the details as they appeared. He cited the unemployment compensation plan of Wisconsin as an example of where worries ever details were not allowed to discourage action on the question...