Word: long
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first college cheerleader. In the early days of U. S. football (1890s), cheering was confined to a few spontaneous yells of triumph or dismay, or an occasional manly three-times-three. At Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...
That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed...
After a while his money ran low, his friends were out when he went to call on them, his law business went to pot. At that point Richard Knight pulled himself together and got down to work again. He acquired a house on Long Island. His friends forgot his recent unlovely behavior, once more found him irresistibly amusing. He married handsome Dorothy Ledyard, daughter of a distinguished Manhattan attorney. They had two children...
...limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
...lunch she persuaded the editor of La Petite Gironde to let her write some articles. Intimate as the bedchamber anecdotes of a gossip columnist, they soon caught on. Before long, Tabouis became foreign news editor of L'Oeuvre, anemic liberal organ of the Radical-Socialist Party. Pale, gaunt-faced Tabouis does her work at home, spends 18 hours a day in her glittering Chinese apartment, calling Embassies in London, Rome, the Balkans, studiously writing down whatever her informants tell...