Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is crazy change-of-the-pocket procedure . . . The United States housing program is in no respect self-liquidating. . . ." He slammed a book down on the well-table so hard it bounced into the lap of grinning Joseph Shannon of Missouri. "My 18-months-old baby will be lucky to live to see one of these contracts consummated...
...small-town newspaper conscientiously reporting a family reunion. This has the effect of making wealthy Tories appear less menacing than the authors intended. Also weakening the picture is the fact that many a rich M.P. opposes his cousins, follows some anti-Chamberlain policies that the authors of the book advocate. Persuasive rather than strident, the book is obviously aimed for this autumn's probable General Election, attacks pro-Nazis and the Munich settlement, adopts a stern tone only when discussing outright Fascists and Conservatives and the Tory members of the Anglo-German Fellowship. British readers, who knew the British...
...murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser puzzled over Bellairs' "curious compound of indifference, wisdom, literary and political sense," the whiskey bottle he kept in his pocket "to save time...
Bilbo's first autobiographical tome, Carrying a Gun for Al Capone, had England by the ears eight years ago, ran into 17 editions, was translated into nine foreign languages. Five years and one book (I Can't Escape Adventure) later, Bilbo opened a highly successful night spot in London's arty Chelsea, where he assiduously cultivated those in the know. Five months ago he started painting, now does nothing else, often works in his studio for 20 hours at a stretch. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if his fellow-refugee and longtime friend...
Author Isherwood wrote most of the book: Auden's contribution is a sequence of 27 sonnets and a commentary in which left politics and a sense of personal disorder mingle in some coolly fluent, somewhat vague verses about war in China, sometimes rhymed...