Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another time, a member of the audience rose with the question, "Mr. Hicks, what do you suppose would happen if a modern Patrick Henry arose to say in Germany or in Russia, 'Give me liberty or give me death.' Which would he got?" Hicks was not hesitant in his reply. "He'd got it in the neck!" was his answer. "What do you think...
Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...
...adventurous career." Born in Paris in 1891. he moved at an early age to Zurich, Switzerland, later went to the University there. He also studied in England and Germany. When he was 14 he decided to become an Orientalist, ordered an Arabic grammar from an astounded bookseller, and rose an hour early every morning to plough through Arabic verbs. Then he plunged eagerly into Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Chinese. His career as an Orientalist came to an end when his teachers wanted him to specialize. "All my life I have avoided specialization," says Henry Sigerist. He went into science, then medicine...
...relaxation Elizabeth Bowen likes movies, music (swing as well as Beethoven), long walks, small, gay dinner parties. A poised and witty hostess, she knows many people, but her close friends are fellow writers: H. G. Wells, who lives nearby, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Rose Macaulay...
...Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official...