Word: aliases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not the tone in which an author normally begs his publisher for a handout. But Daniel Skipton is no normal author. Pamela Hansford Johnson has modeled him on that unholy terror Frederick William Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo," who was recently reintroduced to U.S. readers in his previously unpublished...
Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car...
Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of...
Many writers have noted that MacLeish's hero (alias Job) gets his sobriquet from the present-day practice of calling American business executives by their initials. But no-one seems to have mentioned that he also gets it from the widespread ancient Hebrew custom of omitting vowels from the written...
Presumably, Entry E's Hayden University serves as an alias for New Haven's gothic pile. Ed Bogard, a junior majoring in architecture, turns out to be the never-take-a-chance representative of our college generation.