Word: socialism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...telling an obscene limerick is not just a man trying to amuse his friends. Such is the conclusion of Dr. Raoul Weston LaBarre of Uniontown, Pa., social anthropologist who has studied the customs of Bolivian Indians, done psychiatric research at the Topeka clinic of Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (The Human Mind, Man Against Himself). Young Dr. LaBarre, observing gatherings of limerick-telling U. S. males, and analyzing the content of the limericks, decided that he was in the presence of otherwise normal people unconsciously betraying their repressions and inhibitions. These categories of limericks indicated to him these inhibitions and repressions...
...whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows to relieve the distress of others. At her conclusion Miss Bankhead broke into tears. Next day she sent the committee a vast basket of roses...
...fashions. Among U. S. croquet players: Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Socialite Mrs. Margaret Emerson, whose Port Washington estate is the scene of the annual Long Island croquet championship, Novelists Charles and Kathleen Norris, whose summer place is virtually built around a croquet court, Poloist John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Social Cynosure Herbert Bayard Swope, who plays very solemn croquet with Broadway celebrities at his Long Island home, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Drama Critic Alexander Woollcott and the four Marx Brothers. Most of these play according to the Wimbledon Championship rules* and all of them take the game as seriously...
OVERTURE TO DEATH-Ngaio Marsh-Furman ($2). Bizarre murder of a malevolent spinster, in full view of an English church-social audience, neatly solved, by Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn. A well-knit baffler, with colorful characterizations...
...Refuse to take part in Social Security Legislation...