Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley Theatre is currently presenting 100 unidentified actors in "Created Equal," a 27-scene object lesson which uses the entire sweep of American history to put across its democratic moral. It is a Federal Theatre Project show, ably presented; those who like their stuff will enjoy this. Republicans had better go to the movies...
Keith Memorial is holding over Danielle Darrieux--"Dare-you" is even better than "Sea Moan"--in her American debut, "The Rage of Paris." The picture is strongly recommended for its comedy, its subtlety, and that "je ne sais quoi" that these French girls seem to have...
Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved-although that is the case-but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse...
...omnibus volume, illustrated with 14 romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...
Trending down to the present. Kenneth Roberts rests his case for Maine superiority chiefly on his vehement dare to the reader to knock Maine off his shoulder. Says Roberts: Maine ducks and partridges fly faster. Maine fish fight harder. Maine food tastes better than anywhere else in the world. But the most ingenious evidence concerns the Maine air, which Author Roberts credits with bringing 75 writers into his neighborhood of southern Maine. His theory is that they go there and write furiously and successfully because the air contains iodine pounded out of the seaweed by the ocean surf. For himself...