Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critic Huneker's principal interests may not have been in the U. S., but his breezily enthusiastic criticism was undeniably native. Often blundering, always bold, he was a warm-hearted chronicler of adventure in the arts. Healthy exaggeration came naturally to him, made his sweeping statements sweep cleaner: "[Shaw] is as emotional as his own typewriter, and this defect, which he parades as did the fox in the fable, has stood in the way of his writing a great play. He despises love, and therefore cannot appeal deeply to mankind." Wagner's Parsijal is dismissed as "that bizarre compound...
...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...
Boston censorship is like a vacuum cleaner; it beats everything; it finds the hidden dirt, and it makes considerable noise in doing so. Just recently Mayor Nichols has decided to ban the stage version of "Strange Interlude." Although the Watch and Ward Society is considering the suppression of the book, it may still be purchased in any local bookstore, so that he who runs fast enough may read...
Humbug. "I've gone from 'E. C.' to 'P. C.'," boasted Mr. Thomas once to a British Laborite audience. "That is, I began as an Engine Cleaner and now I'm one of 'is Majesty's Privy Councilors, but I guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner...