Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To Hollywood Mike is a magnificent stooge in a place which can afford magnificent stooges. They laugh at his good-natured Oxonian pomposity, chuckle over his full assumed title, Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, never use his real name, Harry Gerguson.
Such footnotes on the American temperament seem characteristic rather than unique in The Oregon Trail. As readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some...
Review. In 1924, Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benet and Christopher Morley took The Saturday Review of Literature out of the New York Evening Post, launched it as a separate publication. Its amiable reviews, amiable literary gossip, mildly titillating personal ads, weekly word puzzle, reached some 30,000 readers. Dr...
The first two volumes of The Thibaults, published in the U. S. in 1926, traced the lives of Antoine and his younger brother, Jacques, to the threshold of their careers. The present volume (which includes a new translation of the first two) carries them on, shows Jacques, emotional, unstable, imaginative...
Clearly Playwright Shaw's soft-spoken melodrama is a parable of how the gentle souls of the world, taxed too far, rise up and destroy their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The...