Word: authors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of Author Owen Johnson's imperishable Dink Stover, ruthless upperclassmen used to "sell" to bug-eyed freshmen their radiators, wash-stands, fire-escapes and other dormitory fixtures...
...himself. Little by little a powerful odour pervaded the whole hut. . . . [Others] were cutting up, carving, drinking large handfuls of sticky blood, shouting, licking their fingers, masticating, swallowing, stuffing themselves with meat and fat, sucking at fragments of intestine. . . . Men, women and children alike were besmeared with purplish blood." Author Victor ate a little piece too, found it "sharp, spicy...
...Author Alexander, better known for biography (Aaron Burr, Martin Van Buren) has shown he can write a rousing account of the rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins, a wildcat country banker who modeled himself on Henry Clay and Napoleon, grabbed a mountain region full of coal and oil during the Civil War's confusion, developed it afterwards with rugged individualism...
...married life shows that she herself, like a good Jameson heroine, had enough for six. She eloped with one of her shipowning mother's captains, stubbornly refused to patch the break even when it meant stinting her children, kept moving from house to house in windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby), walking on the moors, quarreling with her port-bibbing mother-in-law, ignoring her garrulous sailor husband on his brief visits home. Never able to compromise, to "say with fools and saints, it was for the best," Sylvia's hard shell cracked only once-when...
Sean O'Casey is the author of Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, many another realistically wild Irish play about the lives of Ireland's poor. Less successful is this "autobiography," which covers only the first twelve years of his life. Gist: "Well, he'd learned poethry and had kissed a girl ... if he hadn' gone into the house, he had knocked at the door...