Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of curtain raiser to the senatorial appearance of the 66-year-old wool yarn manufacturer, whose fervor for a high Republican tariff is only equalled by his Quakerism, Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Committee brought in a report in which Grundy lobbying was vigorously flayed. Mr. Grundy was accused of being a campaign "revenue raiser." He was called a "hereditary lobbyist" because his father before him had worked for the McKinley tariff bill. Mr. Grundy's retort about "backward commonwealths" was swept aside as "obviously absurd...
...fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay...
Karl and Anna. Men who fall in love with women merely by hearing about them or looking at their photographs or reading their letters are usually found only in empurpled romances. The Theatre Guild's seasonal curtain-raiser attempts to make such a man seem a creature of reality. In a Russian prison camp, Hero Karl is tortured by the lash of his captors and by the sick, contagious desire of his fellow-prisoner Richard for his wife Anna. Richard vividly describes Anna's habits, her womanliness, the mole on her hip, until Karl feels that he knows...
When a hog-raiser buys a sausage-factory, nothing could seem more natural to the man-in-the-street...
Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin ('Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...