Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
...last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days...
...astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
Victor. Only national figure to emerge from the California election was Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Fortnight ago the ex-sports writer landed in Los Angeles and began sending out appalled columns: "This community lives under ether and utters weird cries in its waking dreams." Westbrook Pegler was alarmed, not because a proposed Ham & Eggs amendment to the State Constitution promised $30 every Thursday to retired citizens over 50 years of age, not because it would have compelled the Governor to name a leader of Ham & Eggs to administer the act, not because it would set up a State bank system with...
...sports pages last week. In the New York Sun and some 125 other papers Grantland Rice went on murmuring genteel phrases that made football sound as leisurely as golf, as intellectual as chess. But Damon Runyan had become a general columnist and short-story writer; so had Paul Gallico. Westbrook Pegler discoursed solemnly about politics, as did Heywood Broun. William O'Connell McGeehan and Ring Lardner were dead...