Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girodat, 60, undertaker and seasoned Catholic charitarian. Mrs. Girodat's jailing was less a result of her own recalcitrance than of the vacillation of local officials. After Michigan's Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald vetoed a bill legalizing beano games, the Grand Rapids prosecutor decided to allow charity games, stamp out commercial ones. He reversed his stand shortly after Mrs. Girodat sponsored a game with 400 players which netted $110 for the Catholic Daughters of America. He not only had Mrs. Girodat arrested but issued a warrant for one of her morgue employes, who was picked up while attending...
...practically the same words, Philip Barry has introduced to theatre audiences in the past decade a host of wonderful people, all gold. Dramatized versions of the folk Playwright Barry likes to gather about him, they were grown-ups whose adolescence had been recorded by F. Scott Fitzgerald. If they were poor, it was because they were heroically artistic. Usually, though, they were quite well off. The ladies wrapped their pretty shoulders in furs, danced in Palter DeLiso slippers, got their divorces in Paris. The gentlemen took the Harvard-Yale football game semiseriously, spoke an elliptical and charming language for which...
...generation that stumbled into a slightly intoxicated maturity in the early 1920's found in F. Scott Fitzgerald a spokesman who dramatized their emotional problems, made articulate their aspirations, and told some excellent stories while doing so. Last week the publication of John O'Hara's second novel made him the strongest candidate among U. S. novelists for the part that Fitzgerald has vacated by growing out of the ranks of the young. A more impressive and ambitious volume than Appointment in Samarra, his first novel, Butter field 8 suggests that John O'Hara is well...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
High point of Chance Has A Whip, describing the delicate relationship of father, mistress and daughter, has a muffled, tragic quality that recalls the best writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The disapproving lady who has charge of Margot frowns upon her intimacy with Leda and her father. When Hendrick, apologizing for the trouble his daughter causes his mistress, casually remarks that she is not a very attractive child, Margot overhears him. When, to make up for that cruelty, they become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together...