Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until Kenneth Roberts was 40, it looked as if Grandmother Tibbets had talked to no purpose. Roberts seemed perfectly content as a newspaperman. Out of Cornell (where he had edited the Widow), he went to work on the Boston Post, stayed there eight years as reporter, feature writer, humorous columnist. He went to Manhattan for brief spells on Puck and the old Life. Then World War I took him to Siberia as a captain in the military intelligence. Thus began nine years of roving in which he covered Europe, Asia and Washington, D. C. for the Saturday Evening Post. Twelve...
...life of the people, and thus it became a perfectly natural medium of artistic expression. I doubt whether the audiences at the Radio City Music-Hall today really enjoy the short ballet sequences in the show. If they do, it is because of their decorativeness, and not any emotional content. The Communist Party has found in ballet a potent medium for disseminating its ideology--this is good because here the dancing really says something important to the spectator, and does not just fill the eye with spectacle. Certain naive ballet companies, too, are experimenting with dances on American themes. This...
...into these "seven thousand emeralds" that decorate the western brim of the greatest oceanic basin. Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes and Spitfires and Junkers, and Panzer Divisions; of $5,000,000,000 defense programs and ''hemispheric defense...
There are 1,500,000 archery addicts in the U. S. Most of these toxophilites are content with target shooting or flight shooting (for distance). But some 15,000 are Cock Robin killers: they want to kill something with their bows & arrows...
...ogle-eyed jinx that persists in shadowing Harvard football captains finally came home to roost at Soldiers Field yesterday when it was learned that Joe Gardella who sparked the team throughout 60 minutes of the rain-soaked content Saturday would be lost to the team for the Penn struggle at Philadelphia this week...