Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson, Healey may not travel the full nine innings if Johns, Lupien, and some of the other "big stick" boys can put the game on ice early, because it is essential that Big Tom be well rested for the all-important game at Hanover Saturday. Slim Curtiss is first in line for relief duty...
Slight, bespectacled Brooks Atkinson (Times), a reserved, dryly humorous Yankee who writes books on travel and Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...
...used in building the fair have come from every corner of the U. S. Labor has benefited by some 96,000,000 man-hours. American Express Co. reports an 8 to 10% increase in export and import freight due to the fair. Railroads, airlines, busses joyously await "the greatest travel movement in history...
Unlike most travel books this one really travels, loiters nowhere, observes brightly on the fly, dwells most approvingly on the efforts of Siam's progressive Government to turn that still independent country into a democracy despite Japanese example and proximity. Fly in the ointment: the Government's mechanization program is causing serious technological unemployment among elephants...
...manner which boldly but without exaggeration emphasizes the essential characteristics of each. Despite Stevens' clarity and firm solidity, his paintings seem very natural, in fact so natural that it is almost possible for you to feel your way into them. Nevertheless, he avoids the dangerous pitfall of travel-poster sensationalism which has in many cases been the Waterloo of other painters who have worked from the game point of view. Three paintings by Prescott Jones contain a delicate but virile just position of tones. Great technical facility can be readily seen in his "Indian Town," a fine example...