Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JACK ROBINSON-George Beaton- Viking ($2.50). Author "George Beaton" (a pseudonym) subtitles his picaresque novel "an adventure in two worlds" (action, ideas). Readers who find one world at a time enough to bother about can hurdle the ideas in their stride without being tripped. The story of a runaway boy's adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale...
...Myra Hess has lived down the handicap. With her there is no pose, no affectation, no sentimentality. She comes on the stage usually in a severe black velvet dress, sits down calmly and plays Bach so that the audience shouts for more. She plays Beethoven with the stride and strength of a man. Her Brahms and Schumann are expertly tender. Evidence of Hess's powers are the houses she draws. During Depression when most audiences have dwindled hers have steadily increased until today she is rated not only as the world's greatest woman pianist...
...Westenkirchners waited. Abruptly a door opened. Out strode the Chancellor, hatted and coated, dashing for his Mercedes to keep an appointment. With one long stride Dr. Hanfstaengl was at his lapel. Pale with emotion the five Westenkirchners leaped to their feet, arms extended in Nazi salute...
...patriotic blacksmiths slain every outspoken critic of NRA throughout the land last week, the slaughter would have been terrific. A definite, increasingly voluble reaction had set in against the Blue Eagle. The "dead cats" which Administrator Johnson had predicted would "fill the air" when NRA hit its stride, were flying thick & fast, and some of them were very dead cats indeed...
Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...