Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's wife), who got the Democratic nomination to Congress in a suburban Detroit district. Comely, brown-eyed Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of three daughters, concert pianist, once headed the State's WPA music project, beat five opponents, campaigning as an all-out supporter of the Administration and critic of Congress for lagging behind the people on war issues. She faces a hard fight in November: her district has been regularly Republican...
...first U.S. press attaché for Eire, former New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., who will also represent OWI in Dublin. Unique among drama critics, Watts spent his summers investigating China, Russia, other hot spots, filing dispatches to his paper...
...years, flame-haired young Claudia Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading...
Then Dramatic Critic Alan Dent, who organized the party, presented Sir Max with 57 bottles of old wines. Sir Max blinked happily, remembered his neighbors in Abinger, the Surrey village where he now lives, said: "What will the villagers think now of old Gaffer Beerbohm...
Author Ormsbee's hero is Abner Coe, an American who is forced to join the French in the Maginot Line through the accident of having been born in Paris. In civilian days Abner was a music critic, bedding down when the whim took him with a lady newspaper correspondent...