Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
...Snyder '14, Kansas City, Mo.; F. G. Sulloway '05, New Hampshire; R. M. Shreve '08, New Jersey; Evan Hollister '97, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. Moot '05, Schenectady, N. Y.; C. C. Stillman '98, New York City; L. P. Clarke, Special '05-06, Rochester, N. Y.; O. H. Cobb '02, Syracuse, N. Y.; F. H. Kernan '97, Utica, N. Y.; D. B. Holt '90, North Dakota; J. E. C. Gaylor '21, Columbus, Ohio; J. J. Rowe '07, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. H. Macleod Jr. '14, Cleveland, Ohio; Virgil Schaeffor '11, Dayton, Ohio; M. S. Wardell, A. M. '22, Oklahoma; Rogers MacVeagh...
...successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July, 1921) U. S. Ambassador...
...purposes of historical study are often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig...