Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When F. D. R. you want to sock, Page Lippmann, Johnson, Kent or Krock...
...over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial...
Hold Tight was originally conjured up in Harlem's "Congo" district where a black and elemental breed of cats drink cheap King Kong liquor, puff reefers and shout a frank and sexy jive talk all their own. Jewish Swingsters Larry Kent and Jerry Brandow joined with Negro Swingsters Willie Spotswood, Ed Robinson and Leonard Ware in publishing it last January through Exclusive Publications, Inc. under the group names Kent Brandow and Robinson Ware Spotswood. Soon it was being innocently squalled all over the land...
...about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens' day to the present...
...Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett Co. Inc., $60,000; General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press, $63,947. President Marion (Davies) Douras of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions Inc. (cinema distributors) was paid...