Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football game at Cambridge (see p. 23). In the first three hours 148 bottles of champagne were consumed. By 3 a. m. the bar's supply of Scotch whiskey was exhausted, not by heavy guzzling but because some of the passengers, including Publisher Noble A. Cathcart of Saturday Review of Literature, were accused of hoarding. The ship's stewards asserted that more liquor was purchased that night than on five round trips to Bermuda, but the party was not rowdy. Next morning fog again bound the vessel off Cape Cod and it became apparent that it could...
...eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum was read all the books on etiquet. For nine years he wrote unwanted novels and was a complete failure, then his music criticism caught on. When Harris was editor of the Saturday Review he made Shaw his dramatic critic. Shaw's weekly column became a brilliant event...
Persons who are literary-minded read magazines like The Bookman, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Colophon, But the booklover and the average reader may be completely different persons. To serve the varied interests of those who patronize bookstores a new monthly magazine appeared last week called Gentle Reader, "a single periodical that would keep [the average reader] completely in touch with the world of books and also present to him within the same covers all the reasonable diversions of modern life...
...Rather than show different artists and tendencies, this exhibition is, like the first, built around an idea. The review of modern painting, which was the subject of the last exhibition, showed clearly the direction of painting toward an abstract rather than realistic type of expression. 'Abstraction' is the name of the present exhibition. It includes examples of abstract (non-realistic) art from many nations and many centuries...
...mace was presented to the Harvard Law Review last April, by the Honorable J. M. Woolsey, United States District Judge of New York, and will be handled tonight according to the producer of common law courts. The three acting judge, who will preside at the trail are to be ushered in by a marshall...