Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugen Jan Boissevain (Edna St. Vincent Millay), poetess (Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...
...Lodger '32, from Plato's "Apology;" T. I. Moran '32, from "American Isolation," by O. D. Young; P. C. Reardon '32, from "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes; J. J. Ryan, Jr., '31. from Wilson's first inaugural address; and D. M. Sullivan '33, from "Moon Island," by Stephen Vincent Benet...
...criticism he finds to be rather lamentable, censorship stupid and audiences daily growing duller. Yet there is O'Neill who will save the theatre from complete disintegration because he has "size." As for Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...
Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long one. If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown's Body...
Paddy Harmon nursed the idea of an athletic emporium in Chicago comparable to Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was young Strotz who finally showed him how to finance it. He got several sport-loving businessmen of his own kind -Vincent Bendix, John F. Jelke, Jr., Vice President B. A. Massee of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Grain Trader James Norris- to go on the board. People like Jack Mitchell (Lolita Armour's husband) and Clement Studebaker, as well as most directors, bought stock...