Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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U. S. publishing reached the acme of specialization last week when the first issue of Divorce appeared. It was printed on cheap paper, eight pages, tabloid newspaper size. It contained few advertisements, only one photograph. Newsstands hawked it for 10? a copy. But it had a purpose. Its leading editorial...
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist...
Died. Thomas Sawyer, onetime railroader, original of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer according to his sister, Mrs. Flaville Pineo of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; in Tucson, Ariz. No such thing, commented Cyril Clemens, second cousin of Author Twain. He added that "Tom Sawyer" was a composite character.
True, Kit Carson is pretty well debunked by the present writer, but this would seem to be the result of the unwise writing of his predecessors, the dime novelists, and to some extent of his contemporaries, the scenario writers. These, together with the professional bravadoes who belonged to the Wild...
Hilaire Belloc, biographer of the French Revolution, has once more issued a new edition of one of the best of these character studies--DANTON Putnam's, New York, 1928. $5). As in the case of his works on Marie Antoinette and Robespierre, Mr. Belloc has made no changes is the...