Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...texts. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan Humanist and Bible expert, has worked for years, will work for years more, on a psychological study of Jesus in which the pseudepigrapha will figure. Most authoritative collection of New Testament apocrypha: The Apocryphal New Testament, edited by M. R. James (Oxford University Press...
...soft, indeed, were the tones of the British Army's crooning that they caused audible snorts in the letters-to-the-editor columns of Britain's press. These by-Gad-sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...
Strickland Gillilan of Washington, D. C. is a veteran newspaperman, onetime president of American Press Humorists, best known as author of the line: "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
...outstanding have been: A TREASURY or AMERICAN PRINTS-Thomas Craven-Simon & Schuster ($3.95): †HAVE WE AN AMERICAN ART-Edward Alden Jewell-Longmans ($2.75); GIST OF ART-John Sloan-American Artists Group ($3.75); AN AMERICAN ARTIST'S STORY-George Biddle -Little, Brown ($4); RUBENS-Phaidon Edition-Oxford University Press...
Landing in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient, the venerable Roger Babson had something to say to the press. Mr. Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...