Word: steins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least the taxi fares were reasonable. The barter system is in full force and you try one fellow after another until you get the best buy. It all averages about 25 miles for $.75...All the members of the Keio University nine knew the words to the Maine "Stein Song" (poor things) and so the Harvard team returned the compliment by learning their school song and using it as a war-cry on the trip home...That trip back was uneventful and Captain-elect Dick Maguire was the only one who found the tossing of the ship disturbing...Craig Woodruff...
Chief Russian delegate was that old veteran of Geneva conferences, roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but in future he will have two confreres to assist him. Vladimir Potemkin, Ambassador to Rome, and Boris Stein, Minister to Helsingfors...
...concert. Even such a cautious commentator as white-bearded Frederick T. Birchall, the New York Times Pulitzer prizewinner, announced that it was a "major event" in the Berlin season. There were plenty of speeches and after the concert thirsty bandsmen joined in a great Bierabend. Milwaukee's bandsmen downed stein for stein, many of them spoke German and 50% were of German descent...
...money ($25,000 or more) to produce a good revue as it does a bad one. What distinguishes the successes from the failures is the x quantity of taste and talent. On that score the producers of Keep Moving had bad luck.* Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently derivative tunes. Then there are the Singer's Midgets, awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse...
...readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find some of his favorites. Arranged handily in chronological order, Modern American Prose begins with Gertrude Stein (1909), ends with an Epilogue by Editor Van Doren, spanning "the years which may be said to have begun with the Younger Generation and to have ended with the New Deal...