Word: book-of-the-month
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...Campbell watched her work, offered her a job. Three years of touring cured her. She worked in a London sandwich bar, taught elocution, began to write. Now a full-fledged author, she has written more than a dozen books, has lectured widely in the U. S. Matador (with Years Are So Long) is the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
Seven Famous Novels is the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...race between education and disaster, 1934 may clear away some handicapping hurdles from education's many-obstacled lane. Last March FORTUNE-readers gasped at a devastating exposure of the international armaments industry ("Arms and the Men"). Last fortnight appeared two books on the same subject, one of them (Merchants of Death) sponsored by the Book-of-the-Month Club. The Senate has authorized an investigation of U. S. arms manufacturers. Old George Bernard Shaw might well have said: "I started it." His play, Major Barbara (1905) contained the first popular warning against munitions makers but, like many another Shavian...
Seven Gothic Tales is the April choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family-plutocrats not included in his book. He is rather deaf, has a sloping forehead, a shy Slavic face; his mustache and hair parted in the middle give him the look of a Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson. Other books: Gallimathias (poems), Zola & His Time, Portrait of the Artist as American, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Robber Barons is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...