Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything seemed to depend on the New Deal's desires in the matter. It has been no fun to have Franklin Roosevelt's most savage critic, the Chicago Tribune, dominating the New Deal's Chicago machine. Mayor Kelly, despite several visits from stodgy "draft-Kelly" committees, could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox...
...single flaw marred Odets' defense of his play. Whatever people might have been saying behind fans, only one Broadway critic had said any of the things about Rocket to the Moon that Odets was defending himself against...
Niftiest and most readable of the new dictionaries* was produced by grey-haired Percy Alfred Scholes, onetime London critic and most prolific of all contemporary English writers on music. Unlike Editors Wier and Thompson, Author Scholes wanted no help with his dictionary, hid himself away in the Swiss Alps, where he labored for more than six years in an isolated house crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
Miss Eleanor Spencer, Radcliffe '41, and John Sever '40 head the cast of the Dramatic Club's modern dress production of Sheridan's classic force. "The Critic," which is to be presented in Peabody. Playhouse in Boston on the evenings of December...