Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempest broke out in Times Square in 1931 when the prize went to Susan Glaspell's Alison's House, an unsuccessful biography of Emily Dickinson presented in a downtown theatre. Disregarded were such outstanding productions as Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Philip Barry (a top-flight playwright who has never received the prize), the sensationally hilarious Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart and, presumably on the grounds that they were not "American," Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen and Grand Hotel...
...last week Stokowski did not change his mind. He played the "Internationale"' and invited the youthful audience (aged 13 to 25) to sing it. Some stood up and hummed haltingly along. But no tempest broke. Stokowski had outsharped his critics by having the words printed in French because, he said, he had been "unable to find an adequate English translation." The translation which Stokowski found unsatisfactory: Arise, ye prisoners of starvation...
...bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke to Lindbergh--even though it does smack somewhat of a teapot tempest--will be loudly cheered by those unfortunate men who do not look as though they worshipped Pure American Motherhood and lived the Clean Life...
When Michigan's Harry Kipke finally made it clear that he had not been invited to coach football at Yale (TIME, Jan. 22), the sports-page-&-barroom tempest over Yale's coaching staff subsided for a while. Last week the Yale Board of Athletic Control announced the 1934 staff: Head Coach Raymond W. ("Ducky") Pond, Assistants Earle ("Greasy") Neale, Denny Myers and Ivan Williamson. It could hardly have caused more rumpus if they had chosen Yale's President Angell as coach and three ditchdiggers as assistants. "Ducky" Pond, like his predecessors, is a Yale graduate...
Quality, Of more permanent interest and much more complicated is the question of liquor quality. Nowhere did the tempest of liquor controversy howl louder than in New York City. Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne, retiring with a bang to set up an analysis bureau of his own and to serve as adviser to Kings Brewery at $15,000 a year, had examined samples of spirits being sold in his jurisdiction, found many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label...