Word: longish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune. At a recent Chicago party, Pianist Templeton was asked if he would accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein in Lalo's Symphonic espagnole. The blind pianist replied he did not know the work but would play it if someone ran through it first. Pianist Templeton then negotiated the longish composition with but one error. Awed, Violinist Milstein declared that the error was an improvement on the original...
...Three Conservations on War, Peace, and the End of History," but the present translation of his essay on Plato, which by the way has been done completely by Richard Gill, will introduce the philosopher to the English-speaking public in a somewhat more acceptable guise than either his longish ethical treatise or his witty dialogues were ever able to do; for interest in Plato is persistent and so it is always timely to have interpretations of Platonism--what indeed could be more interesting than an interpretation from pre-Revolutionary Russia...
...State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach, got himself a sound truck with a live rooster for a radiator emblem, put on a Huey Longish campaign such as Kentuckians had not enjoyed for years. Result: a 95,000 majority for Chandler...
...always mentioned nowadays with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry, for its objectives are in the broadest sense "political...
...assination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. This prose though a trifle too literary, that is, too suggestive of the set piece, reveals Mr. Lehmann as a sensitive commentator, striving to keep his balance. It would be unfair to compare this part with Stephen Spender's "Vienna," a longish poem which has just appeared, for the difference of genres precludes any such comparison...