Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior last winter (TIME, Oct. 22). He requoted Dr. Work's famed remark: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases." He quoted Nominee Hoover's one comment: "I will not discuss that matter." The textile depression in New England was a fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman's dinner pail...
...admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...
...Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been a Coolidge landslide, contended Critic Franklin, these gross errors in popular vote would have been reflected in the electoral result...
...been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then she was on her second husband, now she has her third. Her present U. S. appearance, while it pleased many, pleased, especially pleased, St. John Ervine, visiting London critic, who was reminded of his home town so happily that he wrote a glowing tribute to Fay Compton while he clawed Olympia and Author Molnar...
...cadenced prose Author Roberts has written two substantial U. S. novels that have feeling and sound sense. Whether she wearied of her impeccable artistic performance; or whether moving to New York from her Kentucky mountains proved too kaleidoscopic; or whether the critic lives up to his proverbial reputation for obtuseness, Jingling in the Wind is utterly meaningless potpourri of pleasant enough bits of satire, glimpses of nature, young men in love. A 21st century substitute for Prometheus is Jeremy, rainmaker, who journeys to the rainmakers' convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior...