Word: talented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Fred Mitchell will varsity fall practice this year, renewing a policy discontinued two years ago. The fall session will be held chiefly to uncover talent for next spring's varsity team...
...strike in "Little Steel," particularly Chicago's Mayor Kelly, whose policemen he said killed ten workers in the Memorial Day massacre at a Republic Steel plant. Conspicuously missing from the Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio...
...than with the stones which enclose him. The work of an Irish agitator who spent 14 years in Dartmoor and Parkhurst prisons, was twice sentenced to death, it is written in a sensitive narrative prose, interrupted with passages of Joycean inner-monologs, suggests the emergence of another strong poetic talent in the ranks of young Irish novelists...
...Talent Scout (Warner Bros.) : amiable comedy about the difficulties of discovering potential cinemactors, the even greater difficulties of capitalizing such discoveries, smoothly acted by a cast whose only well-known member is Donald Woods...
...appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here and there with success; 2) that the Millay talent for epigrammatic verse, which endeared her long ago to a liberated generation, has profited by colloquial language and a brisk long line carrying echoes of Ogden Nash more often than Shakespeare. Critics will agree that while many of the speeches Poet Millay has put in the mouths of her characters...