Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out a Captain. Back in New Mexico he helped organize the American Legion, served two years as department adjutant, and began spending money from his large fortune on a new political machine largely recruited from the Spanish-American population. Later accused of buying the vote, he muffled his critics by inviting investigation, then remarked: "The purchasable vote in New Mexico is not nearly as large as most people think." Nominally Republican, he helped elect a Democrat to the Senate in 1924. This move so blurred the State's party lines that when in 1927 the Governor appointed...
...breasted blue coat and dove-grey trousers, a gentleman renowned for candor descended on Washington last week to sing anew an old song. Since 1918, when he was Commander of the A. E. F. Air Force, General William ("Billy") Mitchell has been U. S. military aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized...
...compact breast. Proud is she that no other metropolitan newspaper employs as many female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...
...books for the Harvard Glee Club when it goes to sing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday, November 27. The club will present one of the 15 lecture-concerts being given weekly throughout the year at the Academy of Music under Olin Downes, Music Critic and New York Times Commentator. Some distinguished artists are on the schedule at the Academy this year, including Lawrence Tibbet, baritone; Lily Pons, soprano; Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; and Richard Crooks, tenor...
...anonymous critics show a notable and significant poverty of adjectives. There are, in fact, only two categories into which Harvard courses appear to be divisible, the "interesting" and "enthusiastic" on the one hand, and the "dull", "uninteresting," or "boring" on the other. There is an inescapable impression that the writers are asking much of the instructor and little of themselves. It is not, apparently, so much a question "What can I learn?", as "How can I be kept awake?" It seems to be implied that the college teacher should be a sort of pastry-cook providing well-seasoned morsels...