Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgar Allan Poe, the father as well as acknowledged master of the detective story and murder mystery, have several of his horror tales published in Godey's Lady's Book? Please correct me if I am wrong...
...Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book...
...Unlike other jobholders, the President of the U. S. never gets a vacation completely free of official business. President Roosevelt, according to the official log book, has been absent from the White House, for two days or more, 64 times in six years. Majority of Presidential trips have been to Hyde Park and Warm Springs. Next to the Warm Springs baths, sea voyages, of which he has had 14, are his most relaxing respites...
...Hughes-Hallett also collects Chinese prints and Bessarabian rugs, is an accomplished pianist and mezzo-soprano, has sung under the name of Mme Vimara, has composed an opera called Chimera and a march named Dynamic Detroit, and has a book of poems entitled White Magic to her credit. Detroit is more likely to remember her, however, for her frequent appearances around town with a pet bull snake ("A perfect lamb," she called him) coiled around her neck, and for her always interesting parties...
Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...