Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week a chilly dawn broke over a jerkwater Georgia town on the Southern Railroad. The main street, two ribbons of concrete with newly planted evergreens growing between them, led off at right angles from the track. Fronting on its brief course were the low brick facades of the drug store with its awning, the post office with its green shades, the bank with its blank windows, the general store with its metal canopy, the grocery stores, the filling stations. But in one respect this small town was different: the tourists asleep in the rooms over the drug store...
CATCALLS - Peggy Bacon - McBride ($2.50). For her collection of caricatures, Off with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse...
Featuring brief scrimmages, Coach Adolph Samborski in rapidly whipping his Freshman basketball quintet into shape for its opening game against the Boston university Freshmen Wednesday...
...meeting open with a brief introduction to the subject by the leader or by one of the students, after which the rest of the time is devoted to discussion. They are usually held in the Dean's office in Memorial Church Thirty-five men have already signed up this year, comparing with 21 last year...
...Face of Mother India lies in its 406 photographs, covering typical Indian scenes that range from broad panoramas of the Himalayas to pictures of street fighting, of obscene idols, of corpses being burned beside the Ganges. Katherine Mayo supplies a text to accompany these views in a brief, anti-Hindu, over-simplified sketch of Indian history from the Muslim invasion of 999 A. D. to the trials of Mahatma Gandhi in 1935. Readers who do not share her passionate hatred of Hindu ways are likely to remain unimpressed by her purple prose, her tirades against native terrorists and agitators. Holding...