Word: saint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week famed Economist John Maynard Keynes, often quoted as President Roosevelt's economic patron saint, drew a distinction between the public-works program of the New Deal and that which Keynes is advocating in England. Said he: "President Roosevelt's policy, which was nevertheless very useful so long as it was pressed and saved the U.S. from grave disaster, was, of course, not a parallel case. It was largely devoted to improvising a system of relief and preventing a collapse of credit and general insolvency. Plans for increased capital expenditure on housing, public utility services...
...that he is a great one. Certainly his works are better known and more widely appreciated than those of any other artist in history. Three weeks ago, his Mickey Mouse created a minor government crisis in Yugoslavia. Last year, as "Miki-san," he was Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless it included a Disney film...
Deep in the jungle, Bring 'Em Back Blynn discovers the bird-girl warbling away in the midst of an enthusiastic chorus of birds. Any opera scout but one named Lucius B. Blynn would have recognized the tune as Saint-Saëns' Nightingale song. Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor...
...KNAVES-Leslie Charteris -Crime Club ($2). A murder, forged bonds, a clash with big British smugglers, a fight with a blackmailer who threatens to carve the faces of movie stars, provide the complications of three novelettes about that brash and amusing Robin Hood called the Saint. Exciting...
George Bernard Shaw scribbled on a postcard, "Plays of that author do not attract me; I never go to one if I can possibly help it," sent the postcard to Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England, where he had been invited to attend a performance of his Saint Joan...