Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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(Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising."
*To native Virginians, the Fauquier County horsy set is "the second Yankee invasion." Red-blooded Virginians Montgomery are Britishers "once removed," the Calverts hale from Pittsburgh.
Nobody had any copyright on the idea, and Martin Block went to Manhattan's WNEW with it, at $20 a week. Along came the Hauptmann trial, and Block's big chance. His assignment was to fill in between bulletins from the courtroom. He bought a couple of records...
> Most afflicted by tension are patriots, close students of world affairs, Sunday drivers, businessmen, energetic and ambitious people generally.
>Moderately religious people are more relaxed than unbelievers or religious fanatics.