Word: contributor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still an active contributor to radical journals in many parts of the earth. Writer Trotsky has a great body of intellectual disciples who refer to themselves as the "Fourth International." Communists of the Third International hoped this week that the Moscow trial would tend to reduce Trotsky from the status of a great radical ideologist to that of a common instigator of killings and thus weaken his Fourth International in its ideological competition with their Third. Certainly the Moscow trial had the effect of giving Communists all over the world something else to think about instead of why Joseph Stalin...
...written almost none, that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing them. Divorcing him in 1906, she acted for a time, married Diplomat Henri de Jouvenel in 1910, became a leading contributor to Le Matin, dramatic critic on another paper, editor of a publishing house, author of some 30 volumes of plays, novels, short stories, essays...
Prodigious at more than music is this Harlem-born daughter of a white mother and a coal-black father (TIME, Aug 26). Mrs. Schuyler paints, writes for Negro newspapers. George Schuyler was a day laborer and a dishwasher before he became a novelist (Black No More, Slaves Today), a contributor to American Mercury and Saturday Evening Post. All three Schuylers subsist on raw vegetables, raw meat, a diet which Mrs. Schuyler claims is largely responsible for her daughter's precocity. At two Philippa amazed the neighbors by reading, writing her name, spelling 150 long words. At four her spelling...
...bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what...
Kindly, cultured Mr. Fels detests the word "philanthropist," but his good works have been many. He is a heavy contributor to peace groups, Jewish charities, medical and scientific research. He backed Dr. John A. Kolmer's infantile paralysis serum experiments, was on the Philadelphia Orchestra board until its reorganization last year, gave the planetarium at Franklin Institute. "I heard about planetaria, read about them, thought it would be well for Philadelphia to have one," he explained. "So I ordered...