Word: hume
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took its deserved place among the best novels in the short memory of modern...
...snub- bing the Empire. Next morning the Canadian Prime Minister called on Secretary Hull, but his important interview was reserved for later. That evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt had at their dinner table the Prime Minister; Secretary Hull; Oscar Douglas Skelton, Canadian Undersecretary of State for External Affairs; Hume Wrong, Canadian Charge d'Affaires;- Mrs. Wrong and Ministress Ruth Bryan Owen. Afterwards the gentlemen retired to the President's study. What passed there will not be revealed until the reciprocal trade agreement between Canada and the U. S. is published, but the President and the Prime Minister...
This poppycock is acted with such dash and ingratiating crudness that the show proves a succession of highly amusing situations productive of constant laughter. Teddy Hart, Jean Casto, Hume Cronyn and Betty Field stand out in a cast which is admirably fitted, physically and vocally for the strenuous activities of "Three Men on a Horse." It's the McCoy...
...Castle; H. L. Chadbourne; A. M. Clark; H. vanB. Cleveland; E. R. Coburn; R. C. Cochrane, Jr.; L. A. Collins; J. L. Coombs; S. P. Cotton; E. H. Cox; Sylvester Cunningham; S. M. Dall; J. L. Dampeer; J. K. Davis; H. G. Deane; J. K. P. de Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich Durant, Jr.; J. R. Egan; W. A. Evans; Thomas Fuller; H. L. Furse; R. I. Gale; T. F. Geraghty; John Gilroy; P. M. Glendinning; W. T. Glendinning; Prentiss Godfrey; G. H. Gregg; D. R. Griffin; H. B. Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder...
Dean Sperry reviews all the other opinions of Wordsworth's dismal anti-climax, giving in every case the devil his due and showing what facts each ignores. His own belief is, that Wordsworth in embracing the sensationalist psychology from Hartly, out of Locke and Hume, was pursuing a course detrimental to the continuation and enhancement of his poetic powers and the Dean gives his reasons lucidly and even persuasively...