Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Hamilton charged that a Democratic whispering campaign against both him and Governor Landon had been in progress for three weeks. In the East Jews were being told that he and the Governor were anti-Semites. In the West anti-Semites were being told that the Governor's middle name, Mossman, proved his Jewish descent...
...reason Cleveland was able to assemble so imposing a show was that collectors' resistance to lending their treasures had been largely broken three years ago by the art-beggars from Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland...
Said the encyclical: ". . . It has been highly pleasing to us to learn of ... the progress which continues to be made by . . . the Legion of Decency...
...tourism during the 1920's, the lunatic fringe was the Paris group that published the magazine, transition. Passionate toadies to European culture, Editors Eugene Jolas and Elliot Harold Paul printed in 1927 the first fragments of great James Joyce's work in gibberish, provisionally titled Work in Progress, transition writers, uncertain of society's appreciation of their real personalities, thereupon took over Joyce's experimental style to conceal murky thinking behind an inscrutable jabberwocky...
...career of Aldous Huxley has been marked with many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published...