Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...YEAR: WITHOUT A DOUBT CONGRATULATIONS FOR CUTTING HIM DOWN TO HIS SIZE ON COVER...
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Present at the gala premiere were a quorum of Hollywood actresses, cinema celebrities like Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...
...sudden the treasurer and inside 'shotters' gang got cold feet and started a secret investigation with no other objective than to cover their steps and run to cover, making me and underlings the goat and bring shame and humiliation on my poor loving wife. . . . There are no millions lost or hidden, much less narcotics or alcohol involved...