Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain might make a great leader of the Conservative Party. But outside of England his merit, nay even the fact that he exists, has been obscured by the fame of other Chamberlains, his relatives. Old Joe Chamberlain, he of the haughty monocle and the orchid boutonniere, was a leading British political boss at the turn of the Century, though he never became Prime Minister...
Whatever its merit, the German Lindbergh saga is more pretentious, more quaintly imaginative than anything done on the same subject in the U. S. It is the collaboration of two young moderns -Librettist Bert Brecht, called "The German Kipling" because his verse is of the vigorous, ballad type, and Composer Kurt Weill. Composer Weill won notoriety if faint praise last year for his opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a gruesome piece set in an imaginary U. S. Sodom where money is the gluttonish god. Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism...
...book's merit (which ill-informed reporters may wrongly ascribe to the Ernest Hemingway influence) is its strength of understatement. Out of a horrible theme it wrings the least possible amount of unnecessary grue. If anyone complains, "Why be gruesome?" un-gay Author Matthews may reply with some justice: "Well, the newspapers are full of this sort of thing. It happens all the time, doesn...
Awards for merit are only the external symbols of actual achievement, which in itself is an absolute quantity, not subject to the fickleness of public opinion. In intellectual or athletic superiority, symbolized by the "key" or the "Y", achievement in separate instances does not represent the same amount of ability or effort on the part of the individual...
...picture, for the interest naturally settles on Helen Twelvetrees, who not so long ago gained the attention of both public and producers by her very creditable performance in "Her Man." Until then this newly arisen star's light had been dim indeed, but recognition of merit came and she was soon considered one of the significant "finds" of the year...