Word: wider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely incur the enmity of the Press with libel suits. This may have aided more than one sports writer like the late Ring Lardner, Joe Williams, William McGeehan and Paul Gallico (who will replace Pegler on the Chicago Tribune Syndicate) to perfect sarcastic styles. It is unlikely that a wider field will decrease Pegler's eloquence or his impatience. He plans to-call his new column "Sweetness and Light...
...used without change, with only a little prefatory matter added as a sop to Moronia. Since the additions are in the style of the original tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation of the disintegration of His Imperial Highness, Jones...
More important, of course, was the expression of the President's wider reflections on education: while he said nothing definite enough or specific enough to serve as a basis for predictions, he did reveal enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words...
...Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizens of that place will immediately recognize such thinly-disguised characters as Tycoon Eastman (Henry Ganson), Conductors Eugene Goossens (Vladimir Arenkoff) and Albert Coates (Sir Alfred Banner). But Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention than Rochester's. They paid Author Horgan $7,500 and royalties for his book, hope it will sell as many copies as previous Harper Prize Novels (Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, et al.). Judicious readers will rate The Fault of Angels...
...Karg-Elert (Mr. Phelps): Eye Hath Not Seen (Holy City). . . Gaul (Mrs, Metras): Prelude to Parsifal. . .Wagner (Mr. Phelps): Oh Man Bewil Thy Awful Sin. . .Bach (Mr. Phelps): Into Thy Hands (God's Time is Best). . .Bach (Mrs. Metras): Sinfonietta (God's Time is Best). . .Bach and Toccats (Symphony) Wider (Mr. Phelps...