Word: punditizing
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...significant men at the fight: Jack Dempsey, 33, who climbed into the ring before the fight, waved a straw hat, shook several hands, evoked the loudest cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom few people noticed...
Ensued, last week, furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted. Significant loomed a recent statement by the great Indian barrister Pundit Molital Nehru, executive leader of the Swaraj (NonCooperation Party). Wrote he: "I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind me. In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge the chains...
Engaged. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of Poet-Pundit Matthew Arnold and great granddaughter of Headmaster Thomas Arnold of Rugby; to Harry Forsyth. Her mother, Mrs. F. W. Whitridge, of Manhattan, is Matthew Arnold's daughter, Lucy, who was in part responsible for his visits to the U. S. (1883 and 1886). The fastidious Arnold, England's apostle of culture, was little pleased with the U. S., but felt much the same toward the England of his day. Upon his death in 1888, Oscar Wilde remarked: "Poor Arnold, he won't like...
...quiet clarity of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby of the Saturday Review. He was an lowan, with the midlander's tendency to lunge into emotional appreciations. Sparkle was not in him, as it is in that erudite, free-lancing Irishman, Ernest Boyd. His opinions savored strongly of the pundit, even after he dropped the P. from his signature and wrote more as a journalist than as a professor at the University of Illinois. And this was a ponderous pundit, not an explosive, like "the diabolical little boy with a bean-shooter," H. L. Mencken. But the ponderousness was the weight...
...interests were divided between music and literature. He has "written reams of music since his twelfth year"?is now working on a comic opera in the manner of Gilbert and Sullivan. His degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. are for research in romance philology. He constitutes something of a pundit on Yiddish and Latin-American literatures, having served the Haldeman-Julius Co. ("Little Blue Books"?Girard, Kan.) in that capacity. Last year he published an exhaustive book on Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury, for whom he has great admiration...