Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...
...repeat, don't miss him. The band is far better than early reports would have led one to suspect, and Bunny himself is almost always good. By the way, if you're looking for after-game amusement tomorrow. Leon Mayer at the Kirkland House Dance did a bang-up job of dance music last year for Winthrop House--and the rumor has spread amongst the local wolves that the vocalist with the band has charms beyond her vocal chords...
...Korean eased up thru the crowd, stepped out in front, tossed his "thermos" bottle on to the platform, turned to run. BANG! Several on the platform slumped to the floor. Stunned, the crowd held back a second, and then like a wave, rushed in on the Korean, began tearing him to pieces...
...already heard about its nature. The State Department had disclosed that it expressed "the earnest hope that nothing may occur to injure the peaceful relations of Finland and Russia," and that U. S. action had been taken independently of that of any other country. If reporters could make no bang-up story of that, it was just because, when diplomats really go into action, bang-up stories are usually misleading...
Wars may come & go, but the cannonading over the question whether there is or is not a U. S. school in art goes on forever. Meanwhile, art appreciation in the U. S. has come of age with a bang. In 1939 a barrage of art books has been aimed at the public taste. Biggest is Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces,* a portable gallery of 144 color reproductions ranging from Giotto to Grant Wood. Most aggressive is Peyton Boswell Jr.'s Modern American Painting,† which is as nationalistic as the Spirit...