Word: broun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such was the Lewis keynote: that men like himself suffer burning soul-frustration in the U. S., where "criticism ... is a chill activity pursued by jealous spinsters, former baseball reporters [i. e. Heywood Broun], and acid professors. . . . Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead...
...Heywood Broun, Telegram...
...Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic is the legend...
...Socialist," a new fortnightly publication that will contain feature articles, editorials and news-stories of intercollegiate interest and which will from time to time carry articles by such men as Norman Thomas, Heywood Broun, and Dr. Laidler, will make its first appearance in Harvard Square on Thursday morning. The paper is being sponsored directly by the Harvard Socialist Club and the Young People's Socialist League of New England, and, indirectly by the League for Industrial Democracy of New York of which the Harvard Socialist Club is an affiliated chapter...
...contrast between the Frumkin homelife and the Franklin bullfights and ballyhoo inspired two Manhattan colyum-ists to comment. Heywood Broun of the Telegram wrote: "Suppose you were one of Sidney's relatives. What would you suggest [for his entertainment]? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself...