Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters since 1900 in The Saturday Review of Literature. The essay, Perry-patetically called "Salmon Not Running," concluded that "big" books, like big fish, must be awaited in patience but are worth the trouble when they appear. Said he: "I once asked an old fellow in a military cloak, watching his line in a sluggish stream in Alsace, 'What kind of a fish are you expecting to catch?' 'All kinds,' was his gruff but very proper answer....I confess that I do not care to hear a publisher shouting from his crow's nest 'There she blows!' when I have...
...letters since 1900 in The Saturday Review of Literature. The essay. Perry-patetically called "Salmon Not Running." concluded that "big" books, like big fish, must be awaited in patience but are worth the trouble when they appear. Said he: "I once asked an old fellow in a military cloak, watching his line in a sluggish stream in Alsace, 'What kind of a fish are you expecting to catch?' 'All kinds,' was his gruff but very proper answer. ... I confess that I do not care to hear a publisher shouting from his crow's nest "There...