Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott, dramatic critic Litt.D...
...imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...
...voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well," said the politician, after he got through, "well, how was it?" "Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic...
Another hostile critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...
...strength in gold reserves, and the absence of the gold standard just at present in British international financing, are clearly recognized. In Germany, the question as to whether their new credit structure should be based on the pound or the dollar is being widely debated. Last week one philosophizing critic asked: "What would happen to America if Europe suddenly decided to abandon the gold standard entirely?" He conjectured that America was becoming alarmed because of her tremendous and mounting gold resources...