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...hero: Where you been so long? What good wind blew you in? These themes are interspaced with examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled with ever seeing the sun: "For myself I don't care whether it rains...
...Paul Bunyan. famed superman of lumber-camp legend, had been a hockey player, he would have liked a game that was played in Montreal last week. The two teams, Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Maroons, skated onto the ice at 8:30 p. m. At the end of the three standard 20-minute periods, neither team had made a goal. Because the rules in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs prohibit ties, they went on playing...
...other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most...
...Public Library has a $50,000,000 endowment and is subsidized by the City of New York to maintain 48 branch libraries. Its best collections are those on baseball, poultry, the theatre, Americana, Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan and Isaak Walton. With 12,000 people in & out every day, its central building is probably the world's busiest...
Ernest Hemingway's critics are beginning to call him a professional Hard Guy, hint that at bottom he is an adolescent sentimentalist. His followers crane their necks up at him as if he were a Paul Bunyan of literature, striding from strength to strength. Plain readers read him because he sometimes writes stories that hold them breathless. All three will find what they are looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects...