Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bank after Bank. Signatories to the manifesto included two directors of the Bank of England, the chairman or a director of each of the "big five" banks, and a partner of such foremost fiscal houses of the realm as Morgan, Grenfell...
Before her husband's political onslaught of last week, Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, a comfortable home body and next to Royalty the outstanding bazaar-opener of the Realm, admitted that she had again held a winning ticket in a charity lottery...
First prize of $500 went to one Peter P. Ott of Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary...
...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...
...shorter subjects, there is a "Krazy Kat" film that lives up to the high standard that these black and white pictures have set in the realm of the talkies. The drawings and musical score are both lively and amusing. In fact it was the most hilarious part of the bill. The other contributions, unfortunately were as dull as ever, the booby prize going to a particularly annoying bit designed to show the beauties of the Sunny South. The final contribution was another so-called organologue, whose only apparent purpose was to make more vacant seats for the feature picture...