Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This treatise upon the discoverer of "Realmism," perhaps the most revolting iam yet produced, is followed by reviews which set a standard of literary excellence Mr. De Voto's more pedestrian reviewers might do well to emulate. I shall not tell you the books mentioned, nor the reviewers named, but a reader aware of Harvard's famous or notorious will find much that sounds familiar. Professor S-r-k-n, Professor J-n-s, a brace of instructors in the -c-n-m-cs Department, Messrs. M-rq--nd and S-nt-y-n- and Colonel...
Referring to one cat, Minnie, on the payrolls of the Standard Oil Company (TIME, April 12), I recently met on the island of Rhodes a bewhiskered and short-legged canine named Bippo who is not only the publicly-recognized assistant guardian of the local museum, but actually receives a pension from his government for 13 years of loyal ratsmanship...
...photographers. One group of cameramen were chased in a car at 60 m.p.h. and took refuge in the Melvindale police station where they were followed by three men who identified themselves as Ford service men. The pictures showed that Frankensteen & friends were given no amateur beating but a standard job of mauling including wen known gorilla tricks. One of the pictures disclosed a pair of handcuffs in the pocket of an attacker (see cut) and from the photographs it seemed likely that the Ford men would be identified. It looked very much as if that brutal beating might hurt Henry...
Being a playwright's playwright and, at 45, a man with a serious social conscience he was persuaded to head the Dramatists'' Guild in 1935. In spite of his close Hollywood connections, he immediately set about revising the standard Guild playwright's contract so that now if a film company is the financial backer of a legitimate show, it must purchase the film rights at a price set by the author and a group of negotiators, or else let it-be sold in the open market. This clause prevents the film producer from taking unlimited advantage...
...Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance of the Supreme Court...