Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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GENESEE FEVER-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
...Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
...Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee plumped for he-mannish nattiness in city employes, declared: "Government must be sold to the public. What is needed is eye-appeal...
Among members of the committee sponsoring the convention are: William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...
...Oxford Dictionary of Quotations -introd. by Carl Van Doren...