Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...
Having had fun writing their report, the authors of Guide to Courses announced that a move was afoot to publish a bigger & better one, on the scale of the university catalogue, ratings to be based on a general student poll. This week the daily Californian began to publish results of such a poll, conducted by German Professor Franz Schneider (no rating). Said Guide to Courses: "Such student-controlled criticism might help the teaching staff considerably...
Last week this same Buzz Hoover was packing to pull out of Greeley on a streamliner for a vacation, after the busiest season his Greeley Cash Auction Market has ever had. Sales were running some 60% better than 1938's $1,000,000-plus, and on sales Buzz Hoover collects anywhere from 3% to 7%. Fall and winter business was piling up so that Buzz had to shut down his own auction school, which had 50 aspirants booked at $100 a head...
...Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...
More piqued than panicked by Radio News's doubletalk, U. S. broadcasters last week agreed that the less said about it the better. For the record, CBS's busy News Chief Paul White commented: "So preposterous that it scarcely merits the dignity of an objection...