Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago I read your article "Schmalz" [TIME, Jan. 30] and I was terribly disappointed. Having no intention of becoming an official heckler I tried to forget about it. But every time I hear We, the People on the radio I must think again: "schmalz" and I feel miserable all over. ... I talked it over with a girl with whom I hardly ever agree on anything but she thinks too that you made a mistake. We are both Germans and we should know. I for instance would call "schmalz" an especially sacchariny tenor-voice or a speaker who puts...
Homer Martin to reorganize and purify the United Automobile Workers of America. Inasmuch as Mr. Martin had publicly quit C. I. O. (TIME, Jan. 30), and all delegates to his convention had just been read out of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the buttons had a touch of whimsey...
...Chamberlain, visibly disturbed, attempted to soothe the Opposition by reading a telegram which he had received from General Franco, giving what the Prime Minister chose to interpret as "assurances" that Loyalist rights would be respected. When Mr. Chamberlain read a Franco passage saying that "Spain is not disposed to accept any foreign intervention which might injure her dignity or sovereignty," the Opposition laughed derisively and long. But the Government had the last laugh, defeating the censure motion...
Five Kings, Part I (adapted by Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call...
...eastern colleges has warned its prom committees that no swing will be tolerated at official school dances. If this sort of thing continues, news reports will soon read...