Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Josephine Johnson's first novel, Now in November, took the 1935 Pulitzer Prize on points, for sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...
Hugo Leichtentritt '94, lecturer on Music, will give a free public lecture, with musical illustrations, on "Idyl, Elegy, and Landscape Painting, the Music of the Birds, the Brook, the Winds, the Forest, in Madrigal, Opera, Cantata, Instrumental Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries", tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Music Building...
...eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives...
Communism was once rife in the U. S., but not the sort preached by Earl Browder and William Zebulon Foster. A religious, not a political belief, communism was attempted in 62 U. S. communities during the 19th Century, from Massachusetts' Brook Farm to Indiana's New Harmony...
...pressing business affairs. He was no longer willing to leave the U. S. just for polo. Last week his business association since 1932 with Lehman Bros., big Manhattan investment banking house, matured into a partnership. His good friend Robert Lehman often plays polo with the great Hitchcock at Meadow Brook...