Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...source material the editors relied on second-rate writers, extinct magazines like the Southern Literary Messenger, the Lowell Magazine, the early Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Scribner's, The Congressional Record. Writers like Hawthorne. Emerson, and Thoreau, Sir William observes, were "too English" to contribute much to his compendium...
UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE-George W. Stimpson-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An interesting compendium of little-known facts by a Washington newspaper correspondent who has gathered odd items of information all his life. It tells why a patrol wagon is called a Black Maria (there used to be a husky Negro woman bouncer in a Boston boarding house with that name); what U. S. President was a citizen of France (Washington); what is the lion's share (all). A handy book for people who like to win arguments...
...Said TIME: "San Francisco (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) offers cinemaddicts views of two unusual phenomena: the San Francisco earthquake and Jeanette MacDonald acting with her teeth. . . . The picture is a shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe...
...MacDonald sound effects begin again. Having rendered two night club ditties, "San Francisco," a mission anthem and part of the role of Marguerite in Faust, she is yodeling Nearer, My God, To Thee in a tent settlement when Blackie rediscovers her, kneels down to talk to God. A shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot: The bent figure on a pediment pitching slowly...
Sarita, Spanish dancer, will give a recital of gypsy, and popular Spanish dances this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Jordan Hall. Her program will include several of her own choreographic compositions such as "Rapsodia Valencia", a compendium of the varied rhythms of vivid and exciting Valencia, "Zambra" a Moorish gypsy dance and several other interpretations based upon the colorful, impassioned themes of popular Spanish melodies...