Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM HOGARTH-Marjorie Bowen -Appleton-Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...
Predicting a tough fight, Coach Wes Fesler last night made the statement that the Varsity basketball team would be lucky to win over Rhode Island State in the season's opener tomorrow night at Kingston, Rhode Island...
...entire history of England no one ever picked up the gauntlet of the King's Champion and offered to fight...
...Valencia up spoke the Air & Marine Minister of the Largo Caballero Cabinet, enormous Indalecio Prieto: "I surprised many and aroused the indignation of many others at the beginning of the war by predicting the fight would be long and hard. Everyone seemed to believe it would be a question of two or three weeks. I was right. And I believe it again safe to say that the conflict will extend at least through December, January and February and enter a far more intensive stage than the present battle for Madrid...
...editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish New Republic. But Editor Bliven's was only one of many voices that have lately been raised against the Nation's most prominent publisher...