Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock and a disillusionment to the people of this city. . . . "You talk about dictatorship. None has been proposed. I am asking sound city management. Prudent businessmen . . . recognize it as business management. Politicians call it dictatorship. . . . We cannot effect economies with platitudes, nor can we balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your charge comes as a hollow mockery to the overburdened taxpayers ... of the City who, for more than a decade, have suffered as cruel and vicious dictatorship as has ever existed in an American community. . . ." Just as crisply Governor Lehman retorted that Mayor LaGuardia "missed the point" of his opposition...
...Morley "essay" is a peculiar literary form, neither fish, flesh, nor, fowl. It combines a bit of Chesterton with a good deal of Winchell, and now and then a touch of Mencken or Edgar Guest, to make a distinctive type of chatty writing. As a rule, his sketches are neither very amusing nor very dull. His most recent collection. "Internal Revenue", follows the norm, save that less of it is amusing and more of it is dull...
...benefit of those who might object that his book is not a novel at all, Author Coates defines his aim: ". . . Perhaps one might better describe it as a Jong essay discussing a novel that I might possibly write, with fragments of the narrative inserted here & there, by way of illustration or example." His "hero," one Henderson, is a wraithlike Manhattan Everyman who appears only by snatches and never long enough to establish his identity. He is shown seeing his wife off to Europe, bringing another man's wife to the narrator's house in the country, making...
...recent essay, J. B. S. Haldane, the English Biochemist, on reasoning from the study of plant and animal habits, finds that the three great classes of human parasites are Bankers, Brokers, and Bishops. From reasoning, no less definite, but far more convincing, the Radio Priest arrives at the same conclusion (except for the Bishops). If Father Coughlin makes "House of Morgan" and "gold-" into adjectives more colorful than exact, the ideas could not be decently expressed for popular consumption with other words. A five-foot shelf of Economic Quarterlies cannot prove as he does, that there are forty thousand millionaires...
...human relations' side of it, in many ways resembling very strikingly Ella Winter's "Red Virtue." It scope ranges from anecdotes of peasant life and collective struggles through a discussion of morality, prostitution, art, jails, the army and other points to a travelogue of Siberia and an essay on world revolution...