Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music & dancing activities. Elated by children's response to her shows, Mrs. McFadden last week blamed adults for depraving their children's taste so that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences the child to adopt the same attitude...
Because publishers have tried to make capital of books that he is reported to enjoy, President Roosevelt refuses to discuss what he reads, let alone what he likes to read. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who took an active interest in current literature, found jobs for struggling poets (including Edwin Arlington Robinson), and scribbled notes to young magazine contributors whose pieces he liked, Franklin Roosevelt pays little attention to creative writing. Unlike Presidents Hoover and Wilson, he reads few detective stories...
...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption, unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood
Chafee's booklet, entitled "Dorr Pamphlet No. I", is one of the brightest and most entertaining clinical reports made lately on New England Politics. Anybody with a sense of humor will enjoy the dry wit which pervades all but the most legal parts. There is a feminine appeal, too, in the shape of Mrs. O'Hara and her disappointed horses, and a good bit of Drama in the clash of two sections of the Democratic Party, each led by strongwilled, self-made men. Unfortunately in Rhode Island...
...read the three volumes of "Social and Cultural Dynamics" this reviewer assumes a strictly neutral position but close enough to the ring to enjoy the give and take...