Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fisticuffer Joe Louis is certainly not Aryan, the potent Nazi Reichssportblatt (Reich Sport Paper) suddenly demanded last week that the prize fight between the U. S. Negro and German Max Schmeling, scheduled for New York City in June, be stringently boycotted by Nazi fight fans. In an essay titled, "Is That Necessary?" Nazi Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten wrote: "We cannot feel much enthusiasm for the plan to arrange an excursion to the Max Schmeling-Joe Louis boxing match. Although such a trip in itself might be agreeable, it would suit us better if the Schmeling-Louis fight...
Last January banjo-eyed Funnyman Eddie Cantor (ne Izzy Iskovitch) paused in his Pebeco Toothpaste broadcast. For the best essay on How Can America Stay Out of War? he would give a $5,000 col lege scholarship. Rarely had a radio bene faction been launched under happier au spices. The title was picked by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...
...these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer in his own right and may be counted on to know what he is talking about--but the author should not talk so much in a detective story, supposedly filled...
...were much disappointed but mostly because Train has spoiled both a fine essay on criminal methods and an entertaining story for the Post. The combination, a priori is impossible because of the limitations in length imposed by the murder story form. The author has written with a detail fitting for a scenario but as neither essay nor fiction, the book is disappointingly valueless...
...blurbs lead one to expect in the "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" something akin to the dawn of a new era in motion pictures. In it Hollywood has made a conscious essay at naturalness and authenticity. "Becky Sharp", they tell us, was nothing more than the first faltering step in Technicolor progress; this version of the Fox romance sees the new photographic technique come of age. These claims are, of course, subject to reservation, for in its very attempt at naturalness the picture is at times so conspicuously natural and self-conscious that one concludes there is still much...