Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp who's who of 506 Red leaders, prepared by Subcommittee No. 5 of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and published as a supplement to the committee's report on world Communism (Feb. 29). * Who, according to Aristophanes, persuaded the women of Athens to stage a strike against their husbands. * The ill-clad French revolutionaries who wore plebeian long trousers instead of upper-class culottes (knee breeches...
Eugene O'Neill got a soaking in London too. The Times Literary Supplement seized the occasion of The Iceman Cometh's publication there to beat him black & blue. The characters in his plays were described as generally "ineffectual egotists," his philosophy was "jejune," Strange Interlude "badly bungled," Beyond the Horizon's leading man "a peevish Hamlet who whines and snivels," and the O'Neill dramaturgy generally "the sort of stuff that might be written by an earnest sophomore...
...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT Two (933 pp.)-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
...particular importance to the students were soy-bean milk stations and a daily allotment of peanuts to supplement their rice diet...
...Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably end up by going," he forecast, "and blowing up and coming home...