Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion of U. S. playwrighting begins with Eugene O'Neill. Bunched close together below him are Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson and Sidney Howard. Like them, Howard does not write a hit at every sitting. Since They Knew What They Wanted, only three (Alien Corn, The Silver Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star...
...Percy Hampton Johnston of Chemical Bank & Trust, $125,000; Harvey Dow Gibson of Manufacturers Trust, $125,000; Gordon S. Rentschler of National City. $125,000; the late Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust, $101,919; President William C. Potter of Guaranty. $101,069; Walter E. Frew of Corn Exchange, $100,000; George W. Davison of Central Hanover...
...years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with two sons, Josephson lives at Gaylordsville, Conn, near his good friends Charles and Mary Beard (The Rise of American Civilization). In a workroom there made from an old corn crib he wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish...
...pleasure in reading. One regrets, when reading "After the Great Companions," that he chose to discourse on literature and progeny rather than on food and drink; but no doubt he will sooner or later favor the world with a volume entitled "How to Raise Seven Children on Beefsteak and Corn Liquor, or Short Walks "Twixt Distillery and Abattoir...
...were prepared for our guests with 200 gallons of corn beer and other spirits which we expected would last until midnight, when we hoped they would move on to another supply that we had placed several miles down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew...