Word: noses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...register. ¶ After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce, had declared for Roosevelt, he got a telephone call at his Washington home from Lawrence Richey, the President's detective-secretary. Marrinan's story: "Richey told me he would punch my nose and break me in two for the Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard any more blasphemous or profane language than he used to me." ¶ "Not a peep!" declared Pennsylvania...
Sechrest, onetime farm laborer at Taliesin, the Wright estate at Spring Green, Wis. Loudly C. R. Sechrest demanded $282 which he said was owing his wife for cooking at Taliesin. They scuffled fell in the gutter, Sechrest's knee broke Wright's nose. Two nights later five of Wright's students called on Sechrest with a blacksnake whip, shouting "Kill the s-o-b-!" Sechrest drove them out with a butcher knife, had them arrested. The judge thought $100 fine and 60 days in jail "inadequate...
...FLYING CARPET-Richard Halliburton-Bobbs-Merrill ($3.75). Though he describes his activities during the last two years as "loafing about in my airplane," energetic Author-Adventurer Richard Halliburton was really keeping his nose pretty close to his chosen grindstone-publishable, lecturable adventure. Many and far-fetched have been fair-haired Mr. Halliburton's stunts: swimming the Hellespont, climbing Fujiyama, swimming the length of the Panama Canal (in many an installment), living on a West Indies island à la Robinson Crusoe. His books (The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer) have sold more than...
...settings were not by Lee Simonson, the carousel tune was different and portly Dudley Digges was not Liliom's evil friend "Sparrow." Otherwise, the Repertory's Molnar revival was moment for moment the play of eleven years back. Actor Schildkraut, strutting, slapping the girls, blowing his nose with his hand, interprets the character of a sideshow barker who has nothing to be admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives...