Word: sages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Host Long's introduction Novelist Lewis drawled: "I am very happy to meet Mr. Pilnyak. But I do not care to speak in the presence of one man who has plagiarized 3,000 words from my wife's book on Russia. Nor do I care to talk before two sage critics who have lamented the action of the Nobel committee in selecting me as America's representative writer...
...distinguished litterateurs, editors and colyumists present looked apprehensively at dour, bulky Theodore Dreiser.* Mr. Dreiser reddened but sat still, said nothing. Colyumists Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane who might have been the two "sage critics" in question, joined in the embarrassing silence. Then Host Long called on jovial Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb to save the situation. Mr. Cobb told Visitor Pilnyak that those present were very fond of him and esteemed him very highly, since, "you see, we don't know enough about you yet to be jealous...
...must come, says the sage, to all good things, so it may be mildly hoped that the recent windfall of gangland "dramas" that has done so much to glorify the American Thug has worn itself out with "The Last Parade," this week's feature at Keith's. At any rate the picture goes a long way toward putting this particular type of entertainment "on the spot...
...Sage has often remarked, Radcliffe girls are frequently heard, but never seen. This morning's voice from across the Common comes as the latest development in the new, and hitherto unannounced Radcliffe-Lampoon union. This sudden domestication of the last celibate Jester sets in relief the bachel-orhood of the CRIMSON's Vagabond, who though romantic, is surely not gullible...
Usually overlooked in the great interest argument is the fact that a small loan cannot be compared to a big commercial loan. The clerical cost of making a $100 loan is as great as for making a $100,000 loan, and the risk is much greater. The Russell Sage Foundation estimated that 42% per annum was the minimum at which new capital could be brought into the small-loan field, and the results have indicated that this was the case, that profits have not been excessive. It is the Foundation's conviction that rates can and will come far down...