Word: rates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...satirical portrait of Noel Coward, Impassioned Pygmies is first-rate. As a caricature of Lawrence's biographers it is catty but acute. As a novel about real human beings it is less than fair...
...population, only Baltimore has a lower per-capita cost of government, only St. Louis has a lower per-capita bonded indebtedness. Throughout Depression it has kept notably solvent, has not once defaulted on a payroll or interest payment. It has set up an amortization fund which at the present rate of growth will wipe out its entire bonded indebtedness by 1943, put all city operations on a cash basis...
...Mayoral candidate behind whom anti-Hoan forces are massed is Joseph John Shinners, 54, a 6-ft. 4-in., 255-lb. Irish Democrat who was a first-rate rough-&-tumble policeman in Milwaukee's old days, went into the trucking-&-warehouse business in 1912 and since 1932 has been the able sheriff of Milwaukee County. A Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus and father of ten, Candidate Shinners is expected to draw a strong Catholic vote. He is also backed by the American Legion and the Nazi Friends of New Germany. Asked whether it is true that...
...Guggenheimer is not formally required to do anything for his money. Guggenheim money, however, has helped many a first-rate artist produce many a first-rate work. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote John Brown's Body on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Louis Adamic wrote Native's Return on another in 1932. Criticized for giving assistance to big names, the Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism...
...whom despises his father and can think of nothing but his future career as a great trapeze artist; the other, Saul, has left home several years ago but is coming back to do his last filial duties. On the boat from Marseilles Saul meets Andrew Jordan, a "brilliantly second-rate," phenomenally successful playwright. In their very first conversation Andrew's shiny sophistication crumples before the hypnotic sincerity of Saul; by the time they reach Miramar Andrew is in a dither to do something first-rate and make Saul admire...