Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breeziest, most rambunctious, most irreverent of Broadway's daily critics is the Journal and American's tall, ruddy John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash...
Edman's own philosophy is a humanist cocktail whose chief ingredients are Plato, Santayana and Manhattan. It is the last component that shines, like a pickled cherry, out of Philosopher's Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life...
...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...
...tall, solemnly nice-looking Yaleman who was pious in college (class of 1919) and not ashamed of it, Elmore McKee was Yale's Episcopal chaplain from 1926 to 1930, then rector of Buffalo's swank Trinity Church until St. George's called him. In Rainsford House Rector McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase...
...passage of thirty-six years, Hull admits, has dimmed his memory about the two politicoes, but he recalls Roosevelt as "tall, slim and giving the general impression of a pleasing and agreeable personality." He described him as "a well-behaved young man." Bulkley was called Roy, he said...