Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports of some 70 bookstores. Appearance and position of a book on this chart is determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin's The Citadel was listed by 65 bookstores, had first place on the list, while Mari Sandoz' novel of pioneer Nebraska, Slogum House, shared last place with three others. The Publishers' Weekly list is based on monthly questionnaires to 200 bookstores, is tabulated by regions and cities...
...Sales. Second ambiguity in the lists is that they give no figures on sales. When The Citadel was a leading seller in the small, busy Matthews Book Store in Omaha, Neb. and in the medium-sized, modern Greenwood Book Shop in the Delaware Trust Bldg. in the heart of Wilmington, it was not doing so well at Kroch's in Chicago, one of the six biggest bookstores in the U. S., which sells ten times more books each year than do the other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star...
...reprints sold in drugstores, cigar stores, newsstands. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, currently selling 5,000 copies a day, alone rings up more sales than any ten "best-sellers," and Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, at 2,000 each week, ranks with Cronin's The Citadel and Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents...
...touchdown was scored without the runner crossing the goal line. South Carolina's Jack Lyon was running free for a touchdown when a Citadel rooter stepped onto the field, tackled him. Since Lyon had been clear, the referee awarded South Carolina six points. Score: South Carolina 21, Citadel...
...than 500 coal mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco-sacrosanct stronghold. For "the bogus orf Harley-street" Dr. Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication in Britain, he thundered...