Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be better for the reader, at least, if there were only one or two, with the reviewer given space to move around in and to argue his points. Harry Brown is confused by T. S. Eliot's last play, and waits for elucidation by "such people as Mr. Ransom or Mr. Tate or Mr. Blackmur...
...leading article by Porter Sargent emphasizing, which may possibly be worth doing, the commercial and reactionary character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue...
...neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident that befalls the two brothers in the woods...
...When Thomas R. Amlie, the ex-Representative from Wisconsin whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.), asked him to withdraw his name from consideration by the Senate in the face of opposition sure to deny confirmation, the President reluctantly did so, slapped "name-callers" who had painted Amlie...
They shortly learned why. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins had advised Mr. Noble to find an excuse to show himself to the Press. Reason: Mr. Noble was about to become not only big news but a big figure in Hopkins' appeasement of U. S. Business. Ed Noble next day resigned from his $12,000-a-year job at CAA to take a $1-a-year job as executive assistant to the Secretary. With Ed Noble in mind, Franklin Roosevelt simultaneously asked Congress to create a new title: Under-Secretary of Commerce. Explained Harry Hopkins, greeting his Republican...