Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist, I regret in advance lay readers' probable titter at your implied censure (TIME, April 24) of Socialist Norman Thomas for locking Long Island henpen which supplies eggs for Mrs. Thomas' New York restaurant. I understand Socialist principles to include not only ''equitable distribution of wealth" as you point out, but also equitable distribution of commodities. Any restaurant which, as Mrs. Thomas' establishment at No. 71 Irving Place does, serves polite proletariat a well-cooked, well-balanced dinner for from 45? to $1 on attractive tableware, in clean, quiet, friendly surroundings, is following principles...
...Comic Artist (by Susan Glaspell & Norman Matson; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer) has been under various play doctors' care since 1927, when Mr. & Mrs. Matson first wrote it. Its ills are still uncured. To begin with, the play is not named after the central character of the piece. Central character is Stephen Rolf, a prolix worthy who lives and paints on Cape Cod and goes about in a windbreaker. His brother, sensitive Karl, is the cartoonist of the family, having created a comic strip character named "Muggs," who always is defeated in the last picture...
...foils, buttoned at the tip. Last year's champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin...
Chicken thieves broke into Socialist Norman Thomas' chicken houses in Huntington. L. I., and took 50 of the 100 hens which Mrs. Thomas raises to supply eggs for her Manhattan tearoom. Socialist Thomas, who favors equitable distribution of wealth, put a stout lock on the chicken house...
...British courtmartial of Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders (TIME. April 3): cashiering (no "drumming out" ceremony) and a sentence of five years in a civil jail. Charged on ten counts with selling military secrets to German agents ("Marie Louise" and "Otto Waldemar Obst"), he was convicted on seven...