Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic. At any rate, you never have given the Jews a square deal; you have always begrudged them every little bit of the sparing praise you have ever accorded them. __ In your article on Yehudi Menuhin [TIME, Feb. 6, p. 24], the Jewish violin prodigy, you gave a sketch of his life; you sang his praises; you told us how he was a Tartar; in fact, you did everything but mention that he is Jewish. This you did deliberately, with malice aforethought. Whenever one speaks of Yehudi, one simply can't leave out the fact that he is Jewish...
Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less...
...Dunninger, psychic condition meant nothing. In a biographical sketch which he contributed to Science and Invention Magazine the publication which sponsored his most recent strange doings, he calmly remarked: "Good 'patter' speeches well studied, and a smiling personality, spell success in magical performances...
Were a caricaturist to sketch a situation that last week developed on the U. S. investment scene, he might show President E. H. H. Simmons of New York Stock Exchange as a headwaiter of a crowded restaurant, and Chairman Charles Hamilton Sabin of the Guaranty Co. as a caterer serving with his own hands a new dish to his gabbling, gobbling customers...
...next appearance was at Old Fort, N. C., where it looked as though Candidate Smith might make a speech. But George W. Sandlin, the local orator, got into action first, with a historical sketch of Old Fort. Then a conductor called "All aboard...