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...live as he likes. Under his high-spending management, the ranch (it has never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock...
...significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...
...Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic has had in years when he attacked Thornton Wilder as a vicious example of capitalistic author. U. S. critics have shaken their heads over Wilder, wished he would come...
...years his university has been handling the Pulitzer Prizes, President Butler has had time to become accustomed to such squabbles as last week's. A parallel case in the dramatic award occurred in 1924 when the play jury unanimously selected George Kelly's The Showoff, only to have the general committee give the prize to Hatcher Hughes's Hell-bent for Heaven...
...most successful of women impresarios, who began with vaudeville productions, through which she learned to appreciate the ability of George Kelly, to whose plays she devotes nearly all her activity. Among them: The Torchbearers, The Showoff, Craig's Wife, Daisy Mayme...