Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is a U. S. best-seller,÷ a German publishing firm prepared to bring out All This, and Heaven Too in Germany, asked Author Rachel Lyman Field for permission to put her name on the title page simply as "Lyman Field." Reason: by Nazi decree, Rachel is one of the names officially allotted to German Jewesses. Aryan Author Field refused...
...dons of all persuasions, Monsignor Knox furnishes, between dialogues, imaginary documentation of his characters, some of it in the form of brilliant literary parodies. Best known of the authors whose style he imitates to a comma are James Boswell, Harold Nicolson...
Then things began to happen. Word soon spread around that the show at the Great Northern Theatre was worth the price of admission (55? top). Chicago's best critics ventured inside, came out beaming. Music lovers began to go, found that Chicago's most energetic baton-waving and most stimulating symphonic programs were being dished out by, its WPAsters...
Craftiest player in the U. S., and perhaps in the world, was the late Jay Gould, whose father imported the world's best professionals to teach him the game and who was supreme in this country from 1906 through 1925. Ogden Phipps is the game's current U. S. ranking amateur...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...