Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, it is no surprise to learn that in his last years Moore groomed a young novelist who is a deliberate stylist to write his biography. Moore told Charles Morgan that he wanted his biography to be, not a "tombstone in two volumes," but "a true novel." Mr. Morgan undertook this task, but the withholding from him of an extensive correspondence which Moore had deemed essential for the work, has caused him to abandon his attempt. The "Epitaph on George Moore" contains his explanation and "a distillation" of the materials he had gathered for the work. It is an exceedingly...
...months ago Newton D. Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, in a letter to the New York Times undertook to rebut the new interpretation of history: "From the beginning to the end of my official life in Washington, I never heard the President or any member of his Cabinet, either in conference or in private conversation, express any opinion that the United States ought to go into the War or that any commercial or financial interest, either of the United States or of any group of our citizens, would be promoted by our going...
...family been so fully explained to the public as Mrs. Roosevelt has explained them. She has arranged to write for United Features, beginning with the New Year, a feature called "My Day" in which she will report her daily doings "serious or humorous, important or trivial." Last week she undertook to give her female Press conference a first-hand view of living conditions in the White House by escorting newswomen through the service quarters, rebuilt as a WPA project last summer. The tour took nearly an hour. Proudly exhibited were: 1) the servants' dining room, radiant in white...
...With two one-acters (Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) and one full-length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last's premiere he announced that the hero of his play was "the entire American middle-class of liberal tendency...
Harold W. Danser '37, the first Harvard speaker, undertook to prove that the financial policies of the New Deal are unsound. Following him, Ellwood M. Rabenold '37 discussed the A.A.A., the N.R.A., and the vacillating nature of Roosevelt's policies...