Word: cains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adaptable, resourceful, readily absorb and enjoy responsibility. While I could hope that Frank Capra, Walter Lippmann, Eduard Benes, Rudy Vallee, Mrs. Roosevelt, Max Reinhardt, James E. Cain, Grover Whalen, Madame Chiang Kaishek, E. Alexander Powell or James Norman Hall are in need of an aide, I am entirely unencumbered and would gladly go anywhere in the world where I could find congenial surroundings and work. I have lived abroad...
...defense sprang hard-boiled Novelist James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade). Describing himself as one "known all over Baltimore as Sourpuss." Mr. Cain wrote to the Sim: "Polo is played by many different kinds of people now. ... [It is] within the means of most, even those of us who are on relief, as I have the honor...
...Author Cain is not on relief...
...Bloomington, Ind., three years ago, little Clifford Cain playfully pointed his father's gun at his mother, pulled the trigger, shot her dead. Last week, as 8-year-old Clifford and his brother Robert, 10, were playing with the same gun, Robert playfully shot Clifford dead...
...Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen ride into his grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw it over the branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay...