Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week William Fox, onetime head of Fox Films and Fox Theatres, told the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency about things that made him ashamed of being a U. S. citizen. In his latest version of how he was robbed of his great enterprise he gave the U. S. Government as sound a drubbing as U. S. finance...
...Mulligan represents a real person, with other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty is also no mean versifier, occasionally no mean poet. His version of the old tale of Leda (originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly) is very Irish. One stanza: Of the tales that daughters...
...organized by her, scavenging was a jittery version of the old-fashioned treasure hunt. The contestants paired off in the East Foyer, received sealed envelopes listing bizarre objects which they were expected to fetch in an hour and one-half. At a gun's bark they bolted for the elevators and rushed out into the night to find the following items...
...University of Chicago Press. Edited down to 545 pp. from the 2,000 pp. of a standard Bible, it is a book for reading, gaily bound in red cloth to emphasize its unchurchliness. Short Bibles, revised Bibles and vulgate Bibles are by no means new-the King James version (1611) was undoubtedly strikingly modern in its time...
...Tracy dous grey hair for the first time within this reviewer's memory; and carries off the part of a Railroad executive with a satisfying, lusty banging of fists. Miss Colleen Moore, handicapped by what is sometimes termed the "Come back stage," turns out an acceptable, occasionally an appealing version of the ambitions Mrs. Garner. Mr. Ralph Morgan is still Nicky Tear, however of a filling system. Helen Vincent is beautiful and blank...