Word: frowned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Days Without End (by Eugene O'Neill; produced by the Theatre Guild). There is something extraordinary about every Eugene O'Neill play. In this one it is a ferocious mannikin with unbrushed hair, a flat, angry voice and a perpetual frown. He (Stanley Ridges) is the personification of the lower self that belongs to the hero, John Loving (Earle Larimore), visible to the audience whenever Loving is on the stage but never to the other people in the play. In the first act, Loving and his gloomy shadow are to be seen seated, like the riders...
...Hutton (General Foods). More than 250.000 meals have been given away as a result of Hutton largesse. After dinner her guests dubbed Mrs. Hutton "Lady of the Home," and the children sang: East side, west side, All around the town! Children are made happy, Mothers smile instead of frown; Thank you, Mrs. Hutton - Other kind friends too, May all the joys you bring to us Come bouncing back to yon! Earlier in the week Mrs. Hutton had gone to the White House, where Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, as honorary chairman of the Women's National Council...
...purchase (February-June 1929) of a controlling interest in Loew's, Inc. The deal cost him $73,000,000. Because it included Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as well as the Loew theatres, the deal made Mr. Fox incomparably the No. 1 Cinema Man. U. S. anti-trust laws, however, frown on such acquisition of shares in a competing company, and Mr. Fox kept after the Department of Justice to see if he could get an official okay on the transaction. He actually bought the Loew shares on the strength of a reported verbal agreement between one William Thompson...
Sirs: Your statement (footnote to the article on p. 57 of your issue of Nov. 6, with reference to the Administration's attempt to ease bank credit by increasing the capital funds of the nation's banks) that "the New Deal does not frown on evasions of the law if they happen to suit its purposes," although doubtlessly true as a generality, is wholly gratuitous as an explanation of the acceptability to the R. F. C. of $25,000,000 of the "capital notes" of Manufacturers Trust...
...companies incorporated under New York's banking laws cannot issue preferred stock. Therefore Manufacturers Trust issued "capital notes" which are preferred stock in virtually all respects except in the eyes of the law. They were readily accepted by the R. F.-C., for the New Deal does not frown on evasions 'of the law if they happen to suit its purposes...