Word: highbrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast Beef Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls, So Big, Show Boat, Mother Knows Best; with Playwright George S. Kaufman, a play: The Royal Family...
...know about that," said Saveli. "Maybe Maxy is a great statesman. But I can't stand him any more! He has gotten too highbrow...
...Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov has been seen in Manhattan as recently as 1928, at the Civic Repertory Theatre" It is now presented by the American Laboratory Theatre, small, highbrow, student-subscription organization, and serves to introduce its new directress Maria Germanova, late of the Moscow Art Theatre. Perhaps the greatest exposition of the horrors of ennui, it introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted...
...invent an automatic and foolproof definition of amateurism. They have not only failed to invent one which is not readily broken in the spirit, however much it may be observed in the letter, but the failure has produced a widespread feeling that the ideal of amateurism is foolish, highbrow and snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics as a way of earning his living. The athletic world is full of men and women who do not compete for money, who rank...