Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter in TIME of Dec. 31 is not adequately answered by your comment. Students of history should be informed that in reality Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3, 1849, and promptly thereafter Taylor became President. The Constitution provides, concerning the Presidents: "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath. . . ." President Taylor took this oath at noon on March 5 because he had no occasion to enter on the execution of his office before that time. In contending...
Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum was the only man who ever completely outwitted Bennett. The Herald had made fun of Barnum's famed Jenny Lind. Barnum retaliated by selling Bennett some land at a fabulous price and by keeping theatre advertising out of the Herald for two years...
LEONARDO THE FLORENTINE-A Study in Personality-Rachel Annand Taylor- Harpers ($6.00). Rich dignity in a biography of da Vinci, the central figure in a luminous tapestry of Italian Renaissance. A CENTURY OF FASHION-Jean Philippe Worth-Little, Brown ($7.50). Three generations of dressmakers dictate to society dowagers, famous actresses, and ladies of the evening. THE TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN MIND-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). Provocative, logical, but curiously perverted warning against too much education, too thorough eugenics. *A managing editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows...
...brimming over with first rate men when there were nothing but Indians on Broadway. Europe has centuries of culture back of it, while America is just getting on her feet, musically. The only man I know of here who has done consistently, excellent work in composing is Mr. Deems Taylor, who certainly deserves his position as leader of American composers...
Hello, Daddy! Ever since Betty Starbuck was seen partaking in the frivolities of the Garrick Gaieties, there have been those who regarded her as among the most pleasing of sarcastic heroines; yet she never received her due. She does not receive it now, in Hello Daddy!, though with Billy Taylor and Lew Fields, the publicized star of the show, she does all kinds of things that are engaging. Lew Fields produced the piece; his son, Herbert (Connecticut Yankee) Fields, wrote the book; his daughter, Dorothy (Blackbirds) Fields, wrote the lyrics...