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...Lansing, Mich., William Crapo Durant recently startled citizens by appearing in a Mathis, small French car.* Last week he announced the resignations of the chairman, president, vice president of Durant Motors, Inc., as part of a complete reorganization. He then told of "prominent European motor car interests becoming intimately associated with Durant Motors ... a deal which will affect Lansing most favorably and be of great importance to the automobile industry as a whole...
...will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan, $725, F. O. B. Detroit...
Author Parker is more entertaining when she is funny, but more herself in graver or more spiteful key. Mr. Durant is the story of a man who got into trouble with his stenographer, out of it with the help of what he doubtless imagines is providence. Little Curtis is a small, indeterminate but pathetic boy who has had the misfortune to be adopted by the very respectable first lady of a very small town. Best story: Big Blonde, which won first prize in the O. Henry Memorial award (1929). It is the story of a good-natured woman who takes...
...Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less than no admiration; calls their books "an assault upon the world's cultural values...
Bull in Bearskin. Alarmed by figures as these, but angered more by faults he claims exist in the Federal Reserve system, a bull last week clad himself in a bearskin. It was no less a bull than William Crapo Durant who said: "With regret I make the prediction that we see next winter business conditions unimproved, longer breadlines, more soup kitchens, continued uneasiness and distress a more pronounced tendency to Social and Communism?this regardless of assurance from Washington that every thing is all right...