Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bryan had more ideas than McKinley. Debs had more ideas than Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt has more ideas than Coolidge had. They have ideas, but they do not seem to be able to make the ideas work. They can enact reforms, but they cannot give jobs...
...fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something of the air of a small boy unaware of the ruination around him. Only in his drawings of Chamberlain does Cartoonist Low seem unreservedly angry, and his campaign against the Prime Minister gives promise of belonging with the great performances of its type, the war of Thomas Nast against Boss Tweed, of Homer Davenport against Mark Hanna...
Nowadays the Creole stories of gentle George Washington Cable seem amiable but shrewd, are taken as patent proof that Cable loved his native New Orleans. But when they first appeared he was denounced at mass meetings, damned as a "grim-humored dwarf" who had libeled the good families of the city. Southern literary tempers are not quite so testy now, but they still have a big pinch of gunpowder in them. Latest Southerner to get scorched is 35-year-old Ben Robertson of Clemson, S. C. (pop. 420), whose novel about his ancestors brought on himself the wrath...
...graphic art as in his best painting, Gauguin accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in. the South Seas. Using only the most primitive materials-"any wood I can get hold of," he wrote, "and no press"-he turned out woodcuts that sometimes seem more primitive than the work of natives, studies based on Maori religious psychology, in which the design is clenched around a terrified figure as tightly as a closed fist. He varied work of this character, sultry and mysterious, with woodcuts in which gentler island gods, and relaxed natives are integral to the repose...
Keith Memorial is holding over Danielle Darrieux--"Dare-you" is even better than "Sea Moan"--in her American debut, "The Rage of Paris." The picture is strongly recommended for its comedy, its subtlety, and that "je ne sais quoi" that these French girls seem to have...