Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner was the grave charge of "conspiracy against the state" read out to Bela Kun than he bounded to his feet and roared at the judges: "I am always conspiring for the welfare of the Soviet State, which is even now triumphing over your petty bourgeoise bureaucracy! . . . There is nothing criminal about my activities, which are always purely political...
...will finish in the same order when the season is over. Generally the tradition works out. Last year it was the Pirates in the National League, the Yankees in the American. This year it is the Cardinals and the Yankees. Critics who this week, on the Fourth of July, read the standings of the clubs, could not see much chance that the tradition would be upset. With the taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing...
...paintings with total apathy if they regard them at all. Most painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...
Publisher Pulitzer failed to expand, to explain the World's impressive boast. But cautious advertisers may read the streamer thus...