Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sophisticated type of arriving British traveler mostly evaded questions about the King & Mrs. Simpson, exclaiming, "It is so cheeky for Americans to want to know about that !" Actress Gertrude Lawrence adroitly turned publicity from Mrs. Simpson to herself. "She certainly won't get any publicity from me !" caroled Miss Lawrence on the Aquitania. "I may not be able to get to the Coronation if I get a suitable Hollywood offer, but if I miss the Coronation I am sure the King will understand ! Of course I'm joking." The perfect strategy was adopted by Lord and Lady Tennyson...
...Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote in the New York...
...This compelled Kurt Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...
...colonists, and who has since been supplanted in historic significance by men famed chiefly as his tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero was made the central figure of a biography that pictured him as a forerunner of the true type of modern revolutionist, an able, unscrupulous, single-minded man, skilled in intrigue and a master of the modern art of political propaganda...
Despite the laments of twenty-five year graduates and others of the nostalgic type, this world seems still a virile and stimulating place to live in. Wars and things in Spain are all very well for the front page, but all the really exciting things happen, it seems in Boston--at our very doors, as Mowgli would...