Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might even be abolished altogether. In the midst of the journalistic paean of praise that followed, Bernard Shaw was heard to remark that the only thing that the conference would determine would be whether the next war would be fought with twelve or eighteen inch guns. Perhaps the great dramatist had seen too many post-war scraps of paper scattered before the wind of national feeling and industrial competition...
...impossible for the talkie to use the nuances and half-tones necessary to the effective presentation of a complex idea. The real trouble with the talkie is that to be successful it must appeal to the lowest level of intelligence. The dramatist can choose whatever level he pleases...
...conception of an interspacial sea of turbulent radiation, Mr. MacKaye was able to adduce 17 phenomena which the relativists describe with their inconstant dimensions, but which he believed could be measured with the classical constants of time, space and motion. Scientist MacKaye, 57, is brother to Percy Wallace MacKaye, dramatist, poet, lecturer, esthete, and Hazel MacKaye, producer of esthetic pageants. A half-brother is Arthur Loring MacKaye, retired newspaper editor (Hilo Daily Tribune, Hawaii). All four are versatile writers...