Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with...
Tracy McCraken, now 43, has been by turns editor of Humorist "Bill" Nye's Laramie Boomerang, secretary (1923) to Wyoming's Democratic Governor William Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...
Precise, neat Actor Arliss was Mrs. Patrick Campbell's leading man in 1901, has since assumed well-bred heroic proportions in the cinema. His next role may be a screen portrait of the late John D. Rockefeller. His well-wishers, meanwhile, are urging a fitting cinememorial, The Life of George Arliss, with Mr. Paul Muni...
...Late in the 19th Century a Russian named Iwanowski demonstrated the existence of an infectious something smaller than bacteria by passing a solution from diseased tobacco plants through a Chamberland filter. In time it was found that many animal and human diseases were also due to such viruses: rabies, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, measles, yellow fever, certain tumors, common colds. At Princeton Dr. Stanley grew acres of tobacco plants, infected them with the disease known as tobacco mosaic, ground up their wizened leaves, extracted their juices. This liquid was highly infectious to normal plants. But the deadly...
...only an illustrator but a writer of children's books, Howard Pyle was followed in both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...