Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge's fashion lecture before the National Cotton Manufacturer Association, treats a subject in which he is an undoubted authority. The President in his own quiet way has long been a critic of woman's dress. For hours he has stood on Pennsylvania Avenue watching the well-dressed ladies of Washington and remarking occasionally to the ever-present Dawes that style aren't what they used to be in the old days in Vermont an observation as subtle as it is clever...
...Society of Harvard Dames will meet on Thursday to hear an address. The Little French Girl," by Miss Heloise Bersey, a well known literary critic...
...those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
Robert Benchley's biting article in the last edition of "Life" on the depravity of audiences is a sincere and true a thing as has been written by a dramatic critic for some time. In saying "that the drama of today is not so much an insult to American womanhood as American womanhood is an insult to the drama of today", he has fitly summed up the deplorable intelligence of American audiences today. Just as there are shows which aim to be suggestive, there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted...
...ever a profession needed recruits," said Mr. Clive, "it is that of the dramatic critic...