Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drilling of Boston by Mr. Sinclair has gone merrily on. If it has never gone very deep it is because the tools have been many. They have ranged from the Bookman to the Boston Traveler, and now the Forum has discovered, with Mr. Sinclair taking the melody on the slide trombone, that murders in Boston cost three thousand dollars...
...latest number of the Burton Roscoe-ized Bookman the eminent Mr. Benchley, critic of "plays, skating rinks, and the more refined night clubs", dwells at length on what he deems the "best theatrical performance of the month"--the month being November last, and the artist being the young gentleman from New Haven who entertained some fifty thousand people with his convivial antics. This feat avows the self-confessed humorist, was tremendous; and only the captious will counter with...
...unconscious exhibitionism". The weather was bitter cold and without that blithe victim of "divine afflatus" the period between halves would have seemed an unnecessary purgatory. But few there were who dreamed that the young man's romp would go down in history--as it has gone down in the Bookman. It was one of those inspired moments; the antique-hatted and cooncoated young gentleman might have expected notices from sports writers and columnists--but a real flesh and blood theatrical reviewer must have been beyond his wildest dreams...
...Bookman. Formerly owned by George H. Doran's publishing firm, the Bookman was what is known in the trade as a house organ. It was recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman...
...conference students produced a novel, short stories, articles, verse, all printable. They were paid for these-a novelty to all. John Farrar, aggressive, sensitive editorial director for Publisher George H. Doran, is again the principal. Currently, John Farrar, editor, and Publisher Doran have relinquished control of the Bookman (monthly) to Burton Rascoe, Seward B. Collins and associates (TIME, April 18). In a farewell editorial, Mr. Farrar has explained that one of his chief aims was to make the Bookman "a friendly magazine" for readers, contributors and the writers whose books were criticized therein. For his friendliness, Mr. Farrar gained, among...