Word: critic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut was an ordeal. But stern fellows like Oscar Thompson of the Evening Post and Richard L. Stokes of the Evening World wasted no words. For Critic Thompson it was "the most ragged and perfunctory Meister singer of many...
...last week Critic Swaffer of the London Sunday Express (circulation 538,889) sat at lunch in the Savoy grill, crowded with Londoners eating solid, expensive food. Up to his table stalked Actress Lillian Foster, U. S. star of Conscience, just opened in London...
Smack! Whack! Twice on the face she slapped Critic Swaffer for referring in print to "her affected baby voice, [like] that of a ventriloquist's doll...
Other leaders in the Humanist movement, said Religionist Potter, were Irving Babbitt, Walter Lippmann, Paul Elmer More. Evidently he referred to Babbitt's, Lippmann's, More's cultural attitude, not their religious faith. Paul Elmer More, ( philosopher and critic, is a devout Episcopalian. Said he: "I utterly repudiate Potter." Walter Lippmann said: "No connection whatever." Said Irving Babbitt: "His use of word humanism has almost nothing in common with mine...
Town Boy tells of country girl who took her city sweetheart back to the barnyards, where he seemed pale indeed. When a bucolic beef eater smashed him on the chin, she realized however that she still loved him. Critic Robert Littell of the New York World: "I can think of no good reason for its existence." Critic Gilbert W. Gabriel of the New York American: "It has a certain pleading innocence about the badness of its writing." The New York Times: ". . . definitely a minor occurrence in the theatre...