Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past twenty years. "Good humorous criticisms of the foibles of other nations are an excellent way of building international good will," he went on. "For instance the acceptance by the English of my humorous sketch on the English army after the war shows how much more one book can do than hours of diplomatic bickering. There is a crying need now for a sympathetic book by an American on France...
...Friedkin, Richard E. Johnson, Robert L. Judell, and Rowani W. Young were elected to the editorial board of the Freedman Red Book at a meeting yesterday...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...years in China, Pearl Buck lives with her second husband and publisher, Richard John Walsh, on a 130-acre farm in Bucks County, Pa. She divides her great energies between tending nine children (one of her own, her husband's three, their adopted five) and writing the "books I want to write." Never waiting for moods -"you'd never get anything done if you did"-she writes about four hours a day, in terms of episodes, never halting in the emotional crises, but never going into one just before lunch. Declaring she would rather be an "American writer...
...SLEEP-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's Lady's Book...