Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MASTER OF THE HOUSE-Radclyffe Hall-Cape &; Ballon ($2.50). By means of a simple but elaborated style Authoress Hall diffuses throughout her book a balmy neo-Biblical atmosphere, like that of George Moore's The Brook Kerith. Like that book, The Master of the House treats of the Christ story; but Authoress Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town...
...troubled times of today the need of such a man is all too sorely felt. He was an optimist, filled with a tremendous and awful faith in the possibilities of man. Yet the flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such...
...show of the "Theatre in Art" was held for the benefit of the Actors Fund. It was an important collection. Its sponsors assembled portraits of actors, back stage sketches, scenes of circuses, vaudeville, burlesque and grand opera by such potent names as Thomas Benton, Guy Pene du Bois, Alexander Brook, Antonio Salemme. Critics applauded...
...controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault-Pelterie suit Opinion: "There certainly was no novelty in the use of a well-known device, the lever...
Most celebrated and most dangerous of all steeplechase races, the Grand National was run for the first time in 1839. Most famous of its 16 jumps is Becher's Brook, a five-foot hedge in front of a five-and-a-half-foot ditch. The average odds on Grand National winners have been 15 to 1; their average time...