Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter two McCord is the more substantially humorous, because he does not, so much as Nash does, get funny with his own first-person. McCord is a Harvardman, a scout for a Manhattan publisher, a quadruple club man-and he writes as such. His social prerogatives as a gentleman and scholar are great. In much of his verse he is not above writing like a dandy in a Conning Tower. At his plenary best -in Mother Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly...
...tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat and No Potatoes and Buckin' the Dice, latter including tenor sax by Gene Cedric. One of these days people are going to realize what a mean horn he plays (BLUEBIRD...
...Hicks the present choice is "between German fascism and British imperialism"; he prefers the latter, much as he admits and deplores its "Imperfections." To the editors, that is a craven doctrine; for "the issue is not aid to Britain against no aid to Britain, not British-American imperialism against German imperialism--it is imperialism against democracy...
...means. TIME has given isolationists a chance to state their views, but has also published many letters from all-aiders and outright interventionists, the latter including Novelist Humphrey Cobb (TIME...
...having something to say that hasn't been said before quite in the manner in which you say it." Unfortunately Arch Oboler has never managed to live up to his own dictum. His early shriek-and-shudder work smacked of the pulps he had lately abandoned, and his latter-day effusions never lose their soapy flavor even when social significance is being dragged in by the ears...