Word: vincents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well might Edna St. Vincent Millay cry, "Oh, God, why write," if she chanced to scan TIME'S report under Science in its Aug. 30 issue. To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology, must have been, to say the least, distressing to America's premier candle-at-both-ends-burner...
...countered with "streamline Shakespeare" by John Barrymore and his wife Elaine Barrie, and prepared to put one over on CBS with "original" radio plays by Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over...
...Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries who, of course, banqueted him in return-President Vincent at his estate, "Kenscoff...
...erudite French culture he found typical of many mulatto statesmen in Haiti, and it was fun for diminutive Mrs. Gordon to appear at a Haitian ball one night with dashing Dictator Trujillo of the nearby Dominican Republic, although often enough her partner was Haiti's humdrum, dusky President Vincent...
...Vincent Coll, the "baby killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...