Word: man-in-the-street
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...plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary...
...sense or subacid humor is sometimes discernible, have generated the spark for many a journalistic wisecrack; except to the adventurous few who have been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street, she is the synonym for what Critic Max Eastman calls "the cult of unintelligibility." In man-in-the-street lingo, "Gert's poems are bunk...
...oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers...
From the first, President Hoover has realized that a one-year War debt moratorium would be insufficient to get Germany's economy straightened out. He also knows that the European man-in-the-street regarded his moratorium as the first step toward cancelling War debts to the U. S. Such a move has the backing of bankers like Chase National's Albert Wiggin because if foreign governments have to repay their War loans to the U. S., banks like the Chase will have to wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar...
Hero Cerro. Once in -jail, Augusto Leguia was quickly forgotten by the Peruvian man-in-the-street. Hero of the week, cheered to the echo on his every appearance was the President of the Junta, Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, in many ways an even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against...