Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HOMEPLACE-Maristan Chapman-Viking...
Character in a novel begins with the physical. Author Chapman has few physical descriptions, thus she has a hard job delineating character. Almost wholly she lets her people talk and describe themselves thereby; that far, at least, she succeeds with character. Indeed, her plots being fragile and her style under the influence of Thomas Hardy, the Tennessee idiom remains as her only virtue. Says...
Pride of South African scientists is their possession of fair proof that man originated in Africa, not in Asia as Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn believes and as Manhattan's Roy Chapman Andrews has sought to prove by expeditions...
...EATER OF DARKNESS-Robert M. Coates-Macaulay ($2.50). "To My Father and Mother, Nick Carter . . . ex-Mayor Hylan, Gertrude Stein . . . Oleg Skrypitzine . . . Gerald Chapman, Harold Loeb, The New York Times . . . and Fantomas this book is affectionately or gratefully dedicated." Author Coates lives in Manhattan's Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals...
...maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...