Word: nathanisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bond flotations to carry the city for four years. He felt that a simple reopening of the budget by the Legislature was all that was now needed. As to charter reform, he had already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement...
...rather facetious critical mood Mr. George Jean Nathan once observed that American high comedy failed because when one character had insulted another, something devastating was said in return; whereas, in English high comedy, the offended person simply strolled off the stage announcing that he was going out to have a little tennis What Mr. Nathan says is not strictly true; yet high comedy in both England and America certainly does not fulfill its possibilities. Superficially it is good, but at the crucial moment it bogs down and turns from drama into sentimentality...
...yesterday at Hot Springs, Virginia, preparatory to the coming thirty-fifth annual meeting. Officers now making plans for the convention are Louis Chauvenet '17, president of the Harvard Club of Virginia, Robert G. Richards '16, secretary of the Virginia club, F. Markoe Rivinus '03, chairman of the Program Committee, Nathan Pereles, Jr. '04, secretary of the National association and Harold R. Shurtleff '06, chairman of the invitations committee...
...patrons of the dance are Dr. Moss Marlein, and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Epstein. The Dance Committee is composed of the following members: Herbert D. Tobin '35, chairman; Eugene Brown '36, A. Joseph Creidenberg '36, Edward Epstein '36, Charles B. Feibleman '36, Murry S. Harris '36, David E. Kopans '34, Oscar M. Lurie '35, Irving M. Madoff '35, and Robert Mandel...
...Pons had to turn down 40 dates. Lawrence Tibbett has 51; Kreisler and Rachmaninoff, 33 each; Yehudi Menuhin, 28 (all his parents will let him play); Heifetz, 26, Zimbalist, Harold Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, expert musicians whose box-office power has never been sensational, have in the neighborhood of 30. Nathan Milstein has 33; Nelson Eddy, 37; Rose Bampton, 40. Cancellations were last year's bugaboo. A local manager would engage an artist and then be unable to sell enough seats to meet the fee. So far this season there have been practically no cancellations...