Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100,000 francs. Because Nature had not shaped her conveniently for the accomplishment of her athletic ambitions, she last week horrified Paris by having a surgeon remove both her breasts. Said she: "Sport is all my life...
Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life...
...Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself...
...Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently the New Yorker has been repeating, each week...
...Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available for lay Catholics. Said the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon...