Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appear in Manhattan, was an hysterical shambles. Birthright, the second, was little better. Easily best so far is The Shatter'd Lamp, written in England and whisked off the London stage by the censor after one performance. Races, the Theatre Guild's investigation of the same topic, was last week in rehearsal...
...Author Cabell avers that, with the exception of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, no such attempt has ever been made in English. But Cabell is a lover of red herrings. Actually Smirt is hardly more than a loosely-strung series of essays on its author's favorite topic (his own position as a writer), with occasional Jurgenish passages about love, sprightly interviews with God, the Devil, the public-at-large...
...tremendous wail, protesting in the name of all the well known "American rights" and an individualism whose ruggedness apparently claims the right to poison with governmental approbation. Failing this first move, they have now stooped to the more effective course of preventing public mention of the topic until wavering congressmen can be persuaded that it is worth their while not to be too serious concerning the public welfare...
...order to fill in that twenty-nine minutes, after you get through answering Yes or No, you first look the question over and decide what the topic of the question is. For instance; if the question is "Will a Ford go faster than a Buick?" On first appearance that question looks like a natural for a good old "Yes" or a good old "No," but under the Harvard system that isn't the half of it. First you look the question over, and come to the conclusion that the general subject is automobiles. Then you just go ahead...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...