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...WORK-Oscar Brynes- Harcourt, Brace ($1.25). A fast, comprehensive notation of a fast, comprehensive day's work-Brooklyn's 1934 $500,000 armored-car robbery. Poet Brynes's first published book reveals him as an able handler of 1) melodramatic narrative, 2) a sawed-off vernacular with a hot business-end, cool trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great temptations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies in England last month. On U. S. newsstands this week is the U. S. Rising Tide (10?), similarly God-guided. To get out other vernacular versions of Rising Tide Oxford Groupers have been listening to God's words in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Holland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God-Guided | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...discussing the value of modern historical esiticiam of the Bibble Professor Nash stated that there is a tendency "to cancel out facts becomes different interpretations vary in Belmont defiles. Modern study, however, has gives us a more regards and a vernacular text...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASH DISCUSSES "NEW TESTAMENT" IN LECTURE | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...University as a member of the Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving at sound conclusions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perkins Called "Leading Citizen of Country," Praised for His Devoted Service and Public Spirit by Fellow Officers | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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