Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chang's Roman Catholic mother, an informed amateur of her country's art, never sent him to school. Instead, his fresh talent was nourished by observing nature and studying the old Chinese masters. By the time he reached 16, Chang was also writing poems, verse so good that it attracted the attention of distinguished Chinese men of letters. This was an omen not to be taken lightly, for no Chinese artist may hope to succeed unless he is also a poet, and no poet can reach top rank unless he is capable of illustrating his works visually...
Wherever newspapermen gather, yarns are swapped. Some are true, some apocryphal. Some are good enough to become part of the shoptalk folklore of the press. From Peking last week came this story...
...would not have been in good taste for Franklin Roosevelt to mention Fred Storm's new job publicly, either to congratulate him or commiserate with him on leaving U. P. For only the day before, for the first time in history, a President of the U. S., in a written statement, had accused a press association of sending out a story that was "wholly false." The association was United Press. Facts in the case were these...
Forty thousand of his fellow citizens thought Wonderboy Smith could boot old Mayor Angelo Rossi out of his job, and signed a petition asking him to try. A good many others thought he would be easy to beat. Smart Paul Smith had a private poll taken and convinced himself he had a chance. Three hundred and fifty-six people who work for the Chronicle signed another petition begging him to stay on. So the 30-year-old, pint-size, freckle-faced boss of Mark Twain's and Bret Harte's paper decided to stick...
...themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much trouble in financing as many pictures as they wanted to make, which will probably not be very many. "A good writer should be able to do two good pictures a year," Writer Riskin once remarked. "Unfortunately, we all do several more than that...