Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finland's Foreign Minister, Dr. Rudolf Holsti, resigned last week. Official reason: bad health, low pay. Real reason : pressure from Germany because Dr. Holsti, Finnish delegate to the League of Nations, reportedly made uncomplimentary remarks about Führer Adolf Hitler. Baltic observers concluded that Finland, like dismembered Czechoslovakia, can no longer afford to have outspoken anti-Nazis in its Government...
Since then the Sennep drawings, which serious artists frankly admire for their mordant economy and caricaturing impact, have made him second only to Britain's great David Low (TIME. July n ) in European popularity. He was once honored with formal suppression by the French police, who seized a special all-Sennep number of Le Rire in which it had amused the cartoonist to portray the various members of the Chamber of Deputies as the aged, bearded and hairy houris of a gigantic brothel...
Norma Terris, playing the tavern girl, owns the show by virtue of her singing and her extremely attractive manner in the part. This wench of low estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
...curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...
...make any publisher blanch. Brought out in Paris four years ago, Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...