Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best-known among Broadway's newspaper critics (not including magazine critics such as Robert Benchley, George Jean Nathan, Joseph Wood Krutch, who are also members of the Critics' Circle...
...Shanghai, Britain's Ambassador to China Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr chatted with Britain's Ambassador to Japan Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, presumably about trying to get Japan and China to stop fighting. Next day Sir Archibald went to China's capital, Sir Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance...
...Country Party, Acting Prime Minister since Joe Lyons' death, had promised to carry on until a new Ministry was formed, possibly hoping that he might form it. But Sir Earle resigned in a huff and delivered one of the bitterest speeches Australian politics had ever heard. He accused Robert Menzies of being a stubborn mule, a backstabber, a coward. As proof of the last epithet, he charged that Mr. Menzies had resigned from the Army during the War instead of going overseas. Like many another Briton, Robert Menzies stayed at home to finance the family while his brothers went...
Laborites. Robert Menzies slowly rose to his feet. His voice trembled as he began to speak. If the Country Party had closed the door to coalition for reasons of high policy, he said, he could respect it, but it had been closed for reasons which were offensive, personal, paltry, irrelevant. The House cheered. But when Robert Menzies later went knocking for ministers, he found the Country Party door not only closed but bolted and barred. Even so, early this week he finally succeeded in forming his Cabinet...
When the New York Drama Critics' Circle gathered last week to vote this year's award, Broadway knew the choice lay between Robert E. Sherwood's eloquent Abe Lincoln in Illinois (the favorite), Lillian Hellman's biting The Little Foxes. So violent was the partisanship on both sides that neither play could muster the twelve out of 15 votes necessary to win. After ten fruitless, disputatious ballots,* a weary Critics' Circle decided to make no award. Final score: The Little Foxes, 6 votes; Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 5; Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon...