Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart. He is a friend of mine, and I am not ashamed to write about it. Quite well, I remember a breakfast at the Yale Club when Don, having...
...Angeles delegation cheered the President so loudly that Laddie Boy, Presidential hound, ran to cover...
...very prominently on the map of Hollywood and not so much so anywhere else, a newspaper reporter who is a go-getter to the extent of going and getting the queen. She (the queen), is full of fun. She likes dancing considerably better than governing, and the heroic copy-hound less than either. Elements involved are tabloid revolutions, aeroplane fights, a New York cabaret, and continuous dancing, with or without provocation. The queen being Mae Murray, that is all very predictable and completely satisfying. BRASS-Philip marries lively Marjorie. Shortly, after the preliminary measure of a divorce, Marjorie attaches herself...
Although the scheme brings joy to the Puritans, it has in it some note of gladness for the Cavaliers. The smut-hound may well lick his lips in anticipation; at last his labors of search are ended. With the new committee to help him he no longer has to read one hundred pages of "nice" literature to find one that is "not so nice." Possessed of one of the Committee's reports, he has his filth carefully listed with a specific statement as to why each book should not lie on the parlor table; he has but to select...
...situation is hound to become worse before it will improve," he declared, "because it is only after the matter has gone to extremes that the public will wake up and take action...