Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understand why Louis Calhern and Nina Foch wanted to do King Lear on Broadway," she reported, "I got the following note from James T. Burns Jr. of Columbia University: 'The reason artists like Calhern and Foch choose to star in Lear instead of staying in California to portray defunct cattle barons and brilliantined cuties is approximately the same reason a gifted writer would prefer to become a Wolcott Gibbs instead of a Hedda Hopper...
...bigger than the Aurora, but none could boast a livelier or more literate editorial page. For nearly 100 years, the Aurora's files for the two months of Walt Whitman's editorship were thought lost or destroyed. Then Joseph Jay Rubin came across a file of the defunct daily in the Paterson, N. J. library. In a new book, Rubin (a Penn State professor) and Charles H. Brown have collected 180 articles and two poems by Walt Whitman of the New York Aurora (Bald Eagle Press...
Green Light from Reno. In 1937, when love bloomed, he, Michael Conway, an editor of the now defunct New Masses, was writing a book on U.S. labor leaders. She, Ruth McKenney, was writing a history of the Ohio rubber workers. The two met on a green hillside near New Milford, Conn, to exchange data...