Word: vortex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and new branches. Of this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp...
...working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even of the professedly non-students might be drawn into the vortex by mere proximity...
...efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
...music, Noel Coward, the costar, sings, dances and otherwise performs. This is unfortunate. The adage "supreme in one, indifferent in all," very nearly applies. Mr. Coward is a clever satirist and was quite evidently born with a silver tune in his mouth, but he is still caught in The Vortex and overdoes his stuff as a consequence. His frenzied, nail-gnawing and agonized eye-rolling largely detract from the effectiveness of "Dance, Little Lady," while his indifferent voice and dancing similarly blur a number of other scenes...
Technique. The June raids in New York had been sensational because they were directed at what is supposed to be the inmost-vortex of the pleasure-chasing current of American life. Last week's developments were notable because they transmitted a realistic picture of that vortex to millions of people who had never seen it except through the falsifying medium of cinema...