Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hebrew-phobe. He employs no Jews in his mighty industries; he resents the grip that they have on certain U. S. businesses. And so it was natural that one of the early functions of the Dearborn Independent was to annoy the Semitic. In 1924 and 1925, 20 articles written by Newspaperman Harry Dunn, under the pseudonym Robert Morgan, appeared on the subject: "Jewish Exploitation of Farmers' Organizations." The first article said flatly: "A band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts is on the back of the American farmer. . . . Born...
...Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof, giving a touch of finality to a diffused drama that was probably written to order and to formula in a hurry...
...Significance of such a book as this might be emphasized by its "election" to one of the new monthly book clubs with their impetus-lending memberships. Sociologically it overshadows any novel that may be written this year or another, precisely as a college lecture overshadows a country school spelling bee. Indeed it was delivered in substance during a series of lectures to an international group of students at Geneva. Whatever readers its rapid, crystalline, aphoristic pages fail to drive back to the best in U. S. literature, it will furnish with at least a vivid sequence of that literature...
...Quizzer. It is the Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed...
...What theatrical production, written in part by an ex-World War marine, contains the line "Think fast, Captain. Think fast...