Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 12, under Education, you credit me with introducing basketball into Egypt and with writing the first basketball rule-book in Arabic. The fact is that I was only one of several who cooperated in promoting the sport in its early days in Egypt, the active direction of the basketball league and the editing of the rulebook having been done by Mr. G. M. Tamblyn, the physical director of the Y. M. C. A. in Cairo and now secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Rutherford...
...important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz and U. S. Producer Hal Wallis, for whom The Charge of the Light Brigade represents the $1,000,000 climax of the busiest executive year in Hollywood...
Such success was made possible by the original willingness of U. S. magazines to grant Publisher Wallace reprint rights in return for a Readers Digest credit line. However, Publisher Wallace began to pay something for his material in money as well as publicity as soon as he began to make some for himself...
...Dead End and Pulitzer Prizewinning Men in White, Sidney Kingsley was given more credit for the validity and sincerity of his dramatic ideas than for his way of handling the tools of his craft. In Ten Million Ghosts this discrepancy is even wider. The characters move in an atmosphere of unreality. Verified facts are blurted so awkwardly that they assume a cloak of incredibility. Furthermore, most spectators will agree that the thesis that armament makers are the sole cause of war is too old and battered for adult consideration. Best feature of Ten Million Ghosts is the settings-particularly...
...Johnson, D. C., who warmly declared: "The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York stand for the sanctity of the home against the power of the King. They were placed in a position in which they had to choose between their conscience and expediency. It is to their credit that they had the courage to witness to our Lord's command...