Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broun, untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his curtain talks he fingers his straw hat diffidently, looks incredibly happy when his jokes cause laughter, bewildered when they do not. Sample of the Broun humor: "I made a bet that Abie's Irish Rose wouldn't run a week. . . . Finally I bet that it wouldn...
...late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration, but the constant social calls on one's time-the exits and the entrances." Other books: Books and Characters, Eminent Victorians, Elizabeth and Essex...
...advice and management. In addition to denying this, Mr. Doherty claimed the articles had been printed to hurt his business in order that the Star's management might promote a competing pipeline. Publisher Longan retorted: "If it were true ... it would be no one's damned business, but it isn't true...
Announcer: Isn't it pretty nice to see the wife? . . . How do you do, Mrs. Post. What do you think of all this...
...American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that old bull war chant of the Chicago Wheat Pit: "He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison." And even the most sanguine of optimists was willing to concede that the song was applicable in any market last week, that much of the recovery's violence was due to the running-in of bears...