Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book is one which any normal boy of thirteen would delight in, its appeal to an older and more mature person is undoubtedly limited...
When the Dial first was issued in Chicago, in 1880, it appeared fortnightly under the editorship of one Francis F. Browne. Its book reviews covered many pages, went into great detail concerning novels and their authors, even commenting on typographical errors. In 1918 it moved to Manhattan with Robert Morss Lovett as editor. Then its letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare...
...could the Herreros not chase the Dutchmen? "Not a ship among them," explained Silas, the uncle of this book's author. "That has been the downfall of our race...
...repaid the insult by seeing to it no child was born. That beat Stroud, and she added injury to her revenge by giving him good cause to think her unfaithful. That drove him to throttle her, and to drop himself out of the window, thus ending a book which, considering that the author has published five others and should know better by now is not a very good book...
...Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...