Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passos. After several years' free-lancing in Manhattan and two years in France, he settled down in the U. S. to make his literary fortune, bought an upstate farm (on which he made the first payment with a cash poetry prize), was an editor of the late Broom, wrote for the late Dial. In 1929 he became associate editor of The New Republic. Translator, poet and champion of his literary generation, he has published one book of verse (Blue Juniata), numerous translations from the French, many a literary article. Slow of speech, heavyset, jovial, he is a devotee...
...long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times...
...open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with two sons, Josephson lives at Gaylordsville, Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from...
...Pass was closed to traffic. Parking automobiles is no longer a science, but a gamble. The insouciant police swing their arms in Harvard Square, the Street Cleaners dig in here, dig in there, the snow piles up in ragged mounds, slashes off, piles up again. The trolley whisk-broom, flicking the dandruff off the shoulders of Mass. Ave., is the only efficient device of its kind in the town...
Muckraking in the Augean stables of U. S. politics was at its height in the day of Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the phrase. But it still goes on and there is always a man with a hoe, a gentleman with a duster or a lady with a new broom to do what by definition is an endless job. Muckraking Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles...