Word: cobbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might add, though, that the salty humor of Will Rogers and the amusing portraysis of Irving Cobb and Eugene Babette make...
Adapted from Humphrey Cobb's recent best-selling novel (TIME, June 3) about a reputedly authentic incident on the French front in 1915, it looks at war from a more intimate and shocking angle than Dr. Holmes's dreamy drama. The tale has to do with a gallant regiment of the line which is called upon by a sadistic, medal-hungry general to take a heavily fortified German hill, "The Pimple " after two previous attacks have failed'. The regiment is cut to pieces before it gets through its own wire. The general goes into a psychopathic rage...
...striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt's famed The Fight, Arnold Bennett's report on Beckett v. Carpentier, Irvin S. Cobb on Carpentier v. Dempsey, 45 illustrations by Eakins, Bellows and 35 others, is essentially a handsome gift book that possesses more literary interest than gift books usually have...
...saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog's or that he can comically contort his vast physiognomy. Author Cobb possesses, in addition, the same cinematic quality which assisted his great & good friend Will Rogers...
...rival steamboat captain against whom Rogers has a frantic last-reel race with their boats the stake, Cobb is completely relaxed, spending all his time on the bridge leaning on the rail, squatting, lying down, bibbing mint juleps, funneling smoke from long black cigars. When, finally, he believes the race won, he decides to take a nap. Stretching out on the bridge's settee, he closes his eyes, murmurs to the mate: "When I fall asleep, take this cigar out of my mouth. I've burned up four boats already...