Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively, lean-faced, high-collared old New Englander is Porter Sargent, who as advertising and employment agent, adviser and critic, sits firmly astride the far-flung world of U. S. private secondary education. Although he has not willingly set foot in a school since, upon leaving Harvard in 1896, he taught a while at Cambridge's staid Browne & Nichols, Porter Sargent ranks today as the private school industry's No. 1 lay figure. As such, he annually delivers himself in Private Schools of a long and dogmatic preface on the worldwide State of Education, includes his sprightly...
...Maxwell Anderson was on the brilliant staff of the late New York World. Anderson hadn't gone to war, but he collaborated with the World's book critic, Laurence Stallings, who had, in writing What Prince Glory, a play meant to prove that glory is gained by a bloody price in War. It was a smash hit, but not for its profanity alone...
...vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...
...Post does not ordinarily butt in as a critic of the policies of its contemporaries. But Hearst's fake is so abhorrent it shames the whole newspaper business. It is so dangerous that it can lead to a miscarriage of justice. . . . Where was Publisher William Randolph Hearst while his tabloid was smearing the memory of a dead woman in a faked story...
...Grant family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident...