Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those two American redoubtables, H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, who several years ago rescued the Smart Set from the devastating popularity it suffered as an all fiction magazine, have recently thrown it back to the masses who feed on fiction with this parting sting: "The Smart Set becomes an all-fiction magazine as it was when America's most popular monthly...
...That our real foreign policy should be to offer "with equal generosity" to "clothe the naked and feed the hungry," but that other U. S. action should be confined to cases "where American interests are involved and where the remedy which America can seek is clearly to be seen and is capable of clear statement and of American execution...
...Chicken Feed. Plays produced by John Golden must get very tired of being always called nice and clean. But there seem no other adjectives for Chicken Feed-it is just one of those nice, clean plays about married life in a small town that inevitably bring up the mention of The First Year. Only this time it's the dozenth year instead of the first. And the crux comes when the wives concerned, growing weary of always having to ask their husbands for another dollar for the milkman, demand a 50-50 split of the family income, if they...
...playreader than by the manager or the public. The manager may go through the $500 formality of accepting a play. But a play in rehearsal is worth six in the manager's safe. It may take him three years to lift it from his shelf and feed it to the actors. And even then the odds, according to statistics, are eight to one against the material expression of public approval through large and continued contributions at the box office...
...American farmers who planted wheat on a more or less war-time basis reckoned without the European farmer. Reports from abroad continually emphasize the greater ability this year of Continental nations to feed themselves without the former large grain imports from this country...