Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Agency has friends in high places. Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee and Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair objected on the ground that Britain had no right to put into effect its last year's White Paper zonings in Palestine without first obtaining the consent of the League of Nations, under which the country is held as a mandate. Mr. Attlee forced the Government to agree on a general debate this week, and introduced a motion of censure which will amount to the first vote of confidence in the Government to be held since the war's start. Even...
Walter R. MacLaren received the Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship; Samuel Lewis '35, the John White Browne fellowship; Paul C. Zamecnik '36, the William O. Moseley Jr. travelling fellowship; Sinclair H. Armstrong Jr. '37, the Jeffrey Richardson fellowship; Nathan B. Talbot, the Whitman fellowship and a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; Nathaniel B. Kurnick 4M, a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; and Hubert W. Smith 3M received the James Jackson Cabot fellowship...
Gawky, cadaverous Sinclair Lewis, rehearsing his third stage role, as the canon in Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance, overrode the veto of his technical adviser, the Rev. Edward Murphy, performed in a redlined, red-piped cape (correct for monsignors) on the ground of "good theatre...
...favorably reviewed in many papers, and got considerable publicity, partly because its author is the son of novelist Sinclair Lewis. Burton Rascoe hailed it as the literary discovery of the year, but "Time" concluded its review of the hero's attempts to get him self seduced as follows: "Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich Rympho maniac from Mauhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...