Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico...
...disgusted with the custard softness of the Pulitzer awards for drama, Manhattan's play critics decided to make an annual award of their own. In the next three years they chose, as best U. S. play of the year, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...
...spite of the rain-soaked playing surface and an intermittent drizzle, the Stableymen's steamroller began to function smoothly in the second quarter. Anderson, as well as Blotner, accounted for two points, while Willard, Doughty, Ferris, and Halstead each scored once...
Those who saw action for Harvard were: Hanford and Riecken at goal; Livingston and Behr, point; Wilcox and Behr, coverpoint; Blotner, Gilbert, and Benedix, first defense; Ferris, Edmunds, Tonner, and Blotner, second defense; Willard and Doughty, center; Downey, Bird, Downs, Blanchard, second attack; Anderson and Riecken, first attack; Zouck and Ieradi, out home; and Hammond, Halstead, Stein, in home...