Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five months Referee Cragen thumbed through dictionaries, scratched his pate, learned enough about lexicology to state that "the English language is not on trial." Said he: "If the court could sit in judgment on the dictionary, every one of the 40,000 contestants could come into court, contending that his or her list was the proper winning roster of words. . . ." Last week, having boiled down the case to the real issue of whether or not the contest judges had fraudulently deleted words from Gillman's roster, Referee Cragen dismissed the suit with a two-letter word...
...Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...cast, assembled with care and sound judgment, offers a large number of excellent negro talcuts. Credit must especially be given to Todd Dunean for a magnificent performance as Porgy, to Anne Wiggins Brown who played Bess, to John Bubbles who gave the full sum of his effervescent charm to the role of Sportin' Life, and to Warren Coleman as Crown...
Notwithstanding the administrative difficulties which are entailed by such a radical shift in student interest, the preliminary enrollment figures, showing a great shift toward the Social Sciences, demonstrate that the student is making use of his newly-won prerogative to exercise his own academic judgment. Since this was the purpose behind the abolition of distribution requirements, President Conant, Dean Leighton, and Chairman Gummere should regard the first results of their experiment as a success...
...About a week before sailing time my letter from Cardinal Hayes arrived. . . . His Eminence has given me permission to quote the letter. . . . But it is so complimentary, so much more praiseworthy than I deserve, that on sober second judgment I just can't make that letter public. . . . Though a Protestant (my Presbyterianism seems just as much a part of me as my arms or my eyes or my ears), I have tried these 27 years of reporting Catholic news in New York to do it intelligently and sympathetically. I have often wondered if the Shepherd of New York knew...