Word: sims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...
Married. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, 63, onetime (1913-14) Lord Mayor of London, now Member of Parliament for the city of London, and Mrs. Coysgarn Sim; in London. His first wife died last year...
...befits the world's most eminent democrat, M. Clemenceau lives sim- ply. We lunched and dined in the kitchen. He is at peace with mankind. His soul and heart know no rancor. He is attending to his garden, as all great statesmen of France do when their public service is ended...
...himself the son of a North German merchant, was born in 1875. Because of the wishes of his family, he spent a short time in the life insurance business, writing secretly at night. But he soon went to Italy for a year. On returning he became the editor of Sim-plicissimus (funny paper, now defunct). Buddenbrooks first appeared in 1901, when Mann was 26 years old. He now lives at Munich, is German correspondent for The Dial...