Quotes About 1930s

the books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.

But during the 1930s, many American medical programs had established quotas on the number of Jewish students who could be enrolled. By the mid-1930s, more than 60 percent of applicants to American medical schools were Jewish, and this perceived imbalance prompted sharp restrictions.

The problem, as it was in the 1930s, is that decent people refuse to believe that such far-fetched belligerence is planned, even when they see it in cold print.

His work paid off, and he got her a contract to star in a revue at the Casino de Paris, the most respectable of the city's music halls in the 1930s. Henri Varna ran the club, which emphasized