Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence the appeal of the Governor is such as should be made by every enlightened chief executive from time to time. And a rule which the sister state of Cinnecticut plasters on the windshields of every car might be taken as the best note for the appeal: "Drive so that your car is always under control...
Worthy of note also is the picture. I can imagine the leering triumph of the photographer who maneuvered himself into position to catch this view...
Thus, in Vanity Fair in 1926 wrote Carl Van Vechten, pioneer literary drumbeater for U. S. Negroes. Author Van Vechten had just been to a vaudeville house in Newark, N. J. to hear the greatest of Negro blues singers, Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height...
...have to be a confirmed red to be impressed by the stark contrast introduced by Alice Brady's portrayal of the thoughtless millionairess, blissfully unaware of the poverty around her. This note was further impaired by Deanna herself. Our heroine was supposed to complete the contrast, playing the party of a starving musician's daughter, but she was evidently too young to realize that the role was a nasty thrust at the whole frame-work of Capitalist America, and so played the part of the well-fed child...
...Well," he breathed a sigh, "it is wonderful to have you two to entertain for the weekend." He prayed that he had struck the note of sarcasm off-key. "I suppose you're both keyed up for the game and ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would...