Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What, indeed! Here is one of the few professions in which, if a man does his best work, he is likely to starve. However, there are compromises to be made. A young novelist brought his manuscript to me last week. He was a boy I had met at a meeting of some down town settlement club. " What am I to do?" he asked. " I'm in the doll business. There's no excitement in that and no one to whom I can talk! " What a gift it is to the world to find the sort of person to whom...
...with the assistance of numerous immortal shades, four scenes from the life of that burly Doctor, hater of oatmeal, Scotchmen, professional politicians and cant, who is one of the few among the dead celebrities of English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian talk and incident together on a thin thread of drama and he has accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious...
...since they were guaranteed against failure, loaned money right and left to everyone in sight. The wiser and sounder state banks took out national bank charters and thus retired entirely from participation in the program. In the wave of deflation during 1921 the remaining guaranteeing and guaranteed state banks met their Waterloo. The fund was wholly too small to pay off the depositors of the scores of insolvent banks in Oklahoma, and now the whole law has been abolished. Legislators are wiser, and depositors are poorer. If all such hastily enacted laws could thus be thoroughly tested within our "progressive...
Walter Hagen, who for some indeterminate reason is consistently described by sporting writers as a genial, well-met character, has called the English poor sports. Hagen recently lost the British open golf championship by one stroke. By implication he attributed the loss to the English ruling against "punched" clubs on the eve of the Troon Tournament. Apparently, Hagen has not learned that reticence is synonymous with the graceful loser. His characterization of the English carries a back spin...
...York, she met Floyd Hamilton. "His clothes were rough with that aristocratic ruggedness which only a gentleman dare attempt." Also he was an aerial photographer and the son of a Judge...