Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among countless critical and biographical studies of Jesus, about a dozen are standard today, either for scholarship or popular appeal. Kagawa's book is not likely to displace any of the dozen. Nor does it rank in craftsmanship with George Moore's fanciful The Brook Kerith (which had Jesus survive the Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like...
Commentator offices, on east Main Street overlooking the lake, are a two-story frame building with green shutters. Natives call it the old Sawyer's Blacksmith shop. From Editor Eggleston's office he might easily fish in a babbling brook that flows out of the lake past the building. The Commentator has taken a five-year lease. With wives and families the Commentator migration numbered about 20; they live in six houses overlooking the lake. Editor Eggleston took along his cruising sloop. Publisher Payson remained in Manhattan, will go to Lake Geneva once a month for editorial conference...
...Hague. He was back and boss-busy last week after a winter vacation in Florida, where he hibernates annually in a Spanish villa on Biscayne Bay. There he occasionally visits with Neighbor Ed Kelly, boss-man of Chicago, occasionally drops in at the gambling rooms of the swanky Brook Club, watches the ponies from his box at Hialeah, and freshens up between times with Turkish baths and massages at the ocean-front Roman Pools. Mr. Hague's salary as mayor is $8,000 a year. Other sources of income: unknown...
John Steuart Curry, Thomas Benton, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook and many another headliner of U. S. art last week exhibited canvases in the biennial show of Washington's Corcoran Gallery-for the biggest cash prizes ($5,000 worth) any U. S. artist can hope to win. But the first prize ($2,000) went to a comparatively unknown painter named John Edward Heliker, 31. Painter Heliker's only art training had been a few months discursive study at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He had lived most of his life on his father's farm...
Convoy (John Clements, Clive Brook, Judy Campbell; TIME...