Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then the Sennep drawings, which serious artists frankly admire for their mordant economy and caricaturing impact, have made him second only to Britain's great David Low (TIME. July n ) in European popularity. He was once honored with formal suppression by the French police, who seized a special all-Sennep number of Le Rire in which it had amused the cartoonist to portray the various members of the Chamber of Deputies as the aged, bearded and hairy houris of a gigantic brothel...
...emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
...Brien had gone to the Bowie race track outside Washington, had chipped in $1 apiece to place a bet on the daily double, selecting No. 1 (a long shot named Charles F.) for the first race and No. 9 (a longer shot named James Boy) for the second race-just because they liked the number...
...perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul...
...this, his second ballet (Hollywood Ballet, produced in the Hollywood Bowl in 1935, was his first), Grofe had written catchy, adept, U. S.-style music, had added a persuasive point in his lifelong argument for "symphonic" jazz...