Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room to see and hear Movietones of himself making his Thanksgiving proclamation, and of Kings George of England and Alfonso of Spain. The moving, talking figures on the screen excited the dogs, infuriated them. They barked and barked and BARKED. President Coolidge helped chase them from the room. The show began over again...
Many a political pundit, especially the editorial writers of Eastern newspapers, expressed horror at Mr. Britten's "amazing indiscretion." They tartly accused him of publicity-seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant...
When St. John Ervine, famed London playwright and drama-critic, came last September to Manhattan to write reviews for the New York World, the World asked certain show-guns to express their opinion of the appointment. Most replied in paeans to the critic, hoping thereby to make him flatter their productions. Not so Producer Philip Goodman. He wrote to the World in part as follows...
...have followed St. John Ervine for a long time and know his writing well. He will make a show of himself as a dramatic critic here. Not only will he disgrace himself but he will disgrace the World . . . and his succeeding Alexander Woollcott will be a joke. He is, at times, rather amiable when writing about musical shows, but, on the whole he is a jackass giving imbecilic reviews of most of the plays he attends...
...advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show him up"; had merely tried to humanize him. Of Grant he will no doubt say the same...