Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested to know that my mother, who is an artist, and a good one, was most enthusiastic about your write-up of American painting. As for me I'd rather own Dinner for Threshers than any picture I've ever seen...
...Rodgers & Hart melodies ("When You've Got a Little Springtime In Your Heart," "Over My Shoulder Goes Care," "Dancing on the Ceiling") sound infinitely better than their titles. Miss Matthews sings and dances to them as gracefully as they deserve. The only really weak spots in Evergreen are its happily infrequent efforts to be comic. Sample: The heroine to her scapegrace father: "Do you mind if I open the window?" His reply: "No, but don't give...
Stanley Walker had to take many a jibe for his step down in the journalistic scale. Said he defensively: "I don't know anything about this picture-paper business, and it's time I learned. It's a faster game than I've ever been in, and I'm going to lose a whole flock of inhibitons. If some ideas I have should work out, this will be the goddamndest paper you ever...
...onetime Mayor of New York, he dresses in breathtaking ensembles, arrives late for all appointments. A two-hour nap after 5 p. m. tunes him up for his evening rounds. He delights in confounding dowagers. He astounded a dinner party one night by shrilling: "Congratulate me, folks! I've finally arrived socially. Today I got the sheets of Mrs. 'Bordy* Harriman." His friendship with the elder Hearst sons, notably John Randolph, prompted the traditional summons to the Hearst castle at San Simeon, Calif., the offer...
...halls of the Capitol, it is said that Congressmen plead with newspapermen to tell them what the dope is over at the White House. "What bill are we going to advocate." the Chairman of a prominent House Committee is reputed to have asked a reporter. "I know you've just spoken to the President, so please tell me." Although probably apocryphal, the story has its significance...