Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were some of the national figures who crowded upon the Democratic stage in the closing days of the campaign. Before the political footlights they were all singing the same song, the chorus of which was: "Turn Hoover out! Give us a Change!" They made the land ring with their denunciations of the G. O. P., often forgot to pay more than perfunctory tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the production's hero whom they were all straining to put into the White House...
While President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt were sparring and slugging in the centre ring of the campaign, many a lively political sidefight was in progress last week throughout the land...
...processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence of sexless...
NOBODY STARVES-Catharine Brody- Longmans, Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...
...still possible for the Undergraduate, but no longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...