Word: acrobat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These grandiloquent words last week rolled from the tongue of Willis Jerome Ballinger, a plump onetime editorial writer who is now director of studies for the Federal Trade Commission. Speaker Ballinger, who was once an amateur acrobat, was acting as ringmaster as FTC took over for two weeks the hearings of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Investigation...
...brusque little essay on himself, published in a Soviet magazine in 1926, he said: "For me, a picture is never either an end or an achievement, but rather a happy chance and an experience." Max Jacob once said: "He saves himself by being an acrobat...
...whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked him if he had once been an acrobat, he proved it by walking around the room on his hands), but usually Author Lewinsohn shows Barnato smoothing over diamond diggers Rhodes had antagonized, pacifying the Boers after the abortive Jameson raid, restoring confidence in jittery diamond buyers, until his tireless peacemaking grows wearisome. The big question mark...
Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a reputation nearly as great as that of her son. The father was an alcoholic, ill-tempered, untalented painter named Boissy. In 1888, when little Maurice was five, pretty Suzanne Valadon married a Paris importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give...
Because during the past year he has brought the development of yellow journalism to an all-time high (with some short-lived exceptions) and because he has distinguished himself as America's No. 1 political acrobat, the League of Yellow Journalists places in nomination for Man of the Year none other than its honorary president, William Randolph Hearst...