Word: showman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Billy Phelps is the most popular professor Yale ever had. A curricular revolutionist, he started (44 years ago) the first college course in the modern novel. A superb showman, he made world headlines when he invited Gene Tunney, who had just cut Dempsey to ribbons, to lecture Yale students on Shakespeare. [An optimist, he finds Schopenhauer "a charming companion."] Friend of Galsworthy, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Santayana, Henry Ford, he is a "hero-worshipper" who once told Joseph Conrad he loved him; a critic who called the swing of Eddie Guest's poetry "perfect," Joyce, Dreiser and such moderns...
...letter to the San Francisco News. Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping...
...most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt, "as he would a capon or a haunch of venison, where there is cut and come again; and pours out upon them the oil of gladness...
...sworn in by Chief Justice Cureton of the State Supreme Court, Governor O'Daniel made a grave face. Said the showman Governor: "I pray that glamor and color will be eliminated from our legislative session and that seriousness and dignity will reign supreme...
...Master showman of Relief is David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance of America. Last week in Washington, Showman Lasser produced a tragedy in 50 acts, designed to show the Administration and Congress that instead of cutting WPA rolls the U. S. should furnish more jobs at better...