Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Beautiful is a new offering by Channing Pollock, the Upton Sinclair of the stage. Incorrigibly didactic, Mr. Pollock is not only a playwright, but a poet and parson as well. Like his other plays (The Fool, The Enemy, Mr. Money-penny), The House Beautiful is packed with homilies, but in presenting them Preacher Pollock has stretched his imagination to the limit, as if he realized that he must keep up with the experimental work of the younger boys of the theatre. Hence his play-against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy-makes use of gramophonic...
...from making any money. He is too honest to sell his firm's questionable bonds or to wink at his town's zoning law (he had been made mayor) or to turn a penny for himself. This last act of nobility loses him his job. Meantime, Preacher Pollock has introduced a number of Arthurian pantomimes which dress up his insignificant hero's and heroine's deeds, allegorically picturing Archibald and Jennifer as defending their little castle's integrity, keeping the house beautiful. When they both die, their reward is in having produced...
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey...
...citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
...Pittsburgh it became known that the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. ambassador to Spain, had torn up a will in which he had made ample provision for Dorothy Russell O'Reilly Calvit, only daughter of the late famed Actress Lillian Russell, who was Mr. Moore's wife. Her explanation: he was annoyed at articles by Mrs. Calvit published last year in Liberty, where she wrote that Mr. Moore's mother had once run a Pittsburgh boardinghouse. As a result he cut her off with $1,000. Counsel for Mrs. Calvit announced: "If necessary...