Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SAVAGE SYMPHONY-Eva Lips-Random House ($3). Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile-by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear...
...work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity seeker, forthright Mr. Connick objected to other pieces as artistically inadequate, in which he was at least partially right...
...year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live down his reputation as a roughneck," maliciously defamed "a forthright, honest and faithful citizen [Annenberg] . . . always reputed, esteemed and accepted by and among all his neighbors...
...considered the most noteworthy event in its history since Soapmaker Samuel Fels gave $50,000 to its rat colony. The nourishing estate of the Institute is mainly due to its founder, Isaac Jones Wistar, a hard-bitten adventurer in his youth, a brigadier-general in the Civil War, a forthright and crusty capitalist in his old age. One of the general's great uncles, famed Anatomist Caspar Wistar* of the University of Pennsylvania, had left an anatomical collection. This was the nucleus of the Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died...
...radiorate. General Johnson proceeded to a grill room on the 65th floor of the broadcasting building and heard NBC's president, Major Lenox Riley Lohr explain why General Johnson's brand of plain speaking was, at least on the subject of social disease, a little too forthright for radio consumption...