Word: letting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little hymn of hate about the magazine-movie game has the same politely barbaric wise-cracking of her first play, "The Women." But it has an element which "The Women" didn't have,--a well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward...
They did not uncover much in subduing the Lafayette and Yale threats, apparently being content to get a touchdown and let the hapless opposition wear itself out against a rock-ribbed line. One Wexler to Gustafson heave did the business Saturday against the Blue, and the Crimson are certain to see more of this combination in Soldiers Field...
...Quakers have not clicked in their two opening games, but anytime now the tide gates may fall and let loose an avalanche of blazing, whirling Reagans and a trio of battering rams who are listed on your program as fullbacks. They are long overdue for a real scoring spree, because man for man the Penn gridiron edition of 1939 is a real power-house...
...Syria to China, The Asiatics told of hair-raising adventures, lubriciously glamorous encounters, incredible coincidences and cosmic conversations with the casual air of an article in the National Geographic. More Spenglerian than picaresque, The Seven Who Fled brought together to their mutual doom seven characters symbolic of European races, let them slowly disintegrate with their bewildered sensuality and inter minable talk into the vast oblivion of Asia...
...wanted," said Thoreau, "to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it ... of if it were sublime, to know it by experience. ... If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business...