Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington- Doubleday, Doran ($2). YOUNG WOMAN OF 1914-Arnold Zweig -Viking...
WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington-Donbleday, Doran ($2). Thirty-two years ago, Booth Tarkington hit the popular fancy in a vital spot with a sentimental trifle called Monsieur Beaucaire. Publishers, like children, want their entertainers to do it again. Often enough the entertainer would if he could, but too often the magic virtue has gone out of him. Wanton Mally makes pleasant enough reading, but. . . . M. de Grammont, banished from the French Court, whiles away exile in Charles II's London, soon finds a partner for his madcap follies in Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person...
Finished Fisheries. In Alaskan waters and off the Maine Coast, in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, operate 1,100 fishing boats flying the red diamond house flag of Booth Fisheries Co. Last week the captains of these vessels well might have half-masted their house flags. In Chicago Booth's directors had decided to place the company in voluntary bankruptcy...
Although it is one of the biggest seafood companies, handling 65,000,000 lb. a year and running four big cold storage plants and 75 sales offices, Booth has not earned much money lately. In 1920 it paid its last preferred dividend; during its last reported fiscal year ending May 2, 1931, it lost $1,204,000. President of the company until he died by his own hand last year was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, publisher of Chicago's Journal of Commerce, fullback (Princeton) on Walter Camp's first (1889) All-American football team...
...sell meat & vegetables, the Empress & concubines as buyers and His Majesty as the fishmonger? Abashed, the Keeper of the Book of Rites replied that His Majesty might have a market. Next day and every day thereafter the courtyard hummed with haggling, especially furious around His Majesty's fish booth...