Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have demonstrated that the world of Art is round, big, and far more comprehensive than the area bounded by the Greeks at one end and grandfather's favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point of view. This week a large, clear book by Critic Sheldon Cheney* seemed to fill the bill...
...year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper, the Michigan Essay and Impartial Observer. When Detroit burned to the ground in 1805, Father Richard's St. Anne's Church was gone and he set up in a tent, later building a new church and six schools beside. With a Presbyterian named Rev. John Monteith he founded in 1817 what...
Although not competent to judge all the articles of the October Guardian, those essays which deal with material with which I am familiar, strike me favorably by their competence and discriminating judgment. I refer to: Professor Wild's "American Neutrality and the Far East," Joseph J. Goohern's "Whose Revolution?" (The Haskins Prize Essay), and Peter Vierick's "The Conservative Way to Peace...
...came through this. A third set of 90 puzzles most fiendishly devised served only to prove the calibre of the 9,000, of whom 8,160 returned correct answers in five days. In accordance with the rules, the contest thereupon became literary, each survivor having to submit an essay on the increased popularity of Old Golds in his or her community as a result of the contest. Last week Lorillard positively refused to make public any of the prize-winning letters or the names of the judges. Second prize of $30,000 went to Pharmacist Florence Zimmermann in Peoria...
...CULPA-Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Little, Brown ($2). By the author of the sensational Journey to the End of the Night, a long essay on the Hungarian doc^ tor Semmelweis, martyr to modern antisepsis, and a brief essay on the Soviet Union, the latter breaking all existing records for anti-Communist invective...