Word: garret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...
...only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...
...family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
George M. Shuster, President of Hunter College, has volunteered to assist the committee in relations with UNESCO. Alfred Kazin, well-known author, Professor Meyer Shapiro of Columbia University, Professor G. A. Borgese of the University of Chicago, and Garret Mattingly, director of the department of Social Philosophy at Cooper Union, are also participating in the work...
Organized in November, the Association already boasts 40 members paying the not inconsiderable dues of five dollars a year. In the finest tradition of serious art, the members do their work in a two room studio garret on the top of Sever Hall where the Association offers three-hour "life" classes once a week...