Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacNider may not run for office next autumn but, as Washington judges men, he will run for something, somewhere, soon. As Washington judges politicians, he will get there. In. Col. MacNider's successor, chosen at his suggestion months ago, was another Iowa banker and American Legionary, Col. Charles Burton Robbins of Cedar Rapids. Aged 50, Col. Robbins served against the Spaniards, was wounded in the head. He has an insurance business (Cedar Rapids Life). He has been a judge. As able a Big-Desk man as his young predecessor he is more the type of man who will stay...
...latest number of the Burton Roscoe-ized Bookman the eminent Mr. Benchley, critic of "plays, skating rinks, and the more refined night clubs", dwells at length on what he deems the "best theatrical performance of the month"--the month being November last, and the artist being the young gentleman from New Haven who entertained some fifty thousand people with his convivial antics. This feat avows the self-confessed humorist, was tremendous; and only the captious will counter with...
MORROW'S ALMANACK-edited by Burton Rascoe-William Morrow ($2). Editor Rascoe, who seems to be aware of everything in the world, has concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many...
...have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only did his political ideas collapse in ruins but such personal...
...Although Burton Rascoe thought his The Waste Land a "thing of bitterness and beauty," a nameless London editor pronounced it "an obscure but amusing poem." The reader must judge for himself. But of his brilliance as a critic there can be little doubt, however much his taste may be in dispute...