Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
...made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
Number of words in the Lytton Report: 100,000. Eminently readable three-decker novels of twice that length used to be tossed off with ease by Lord Lytton's grandfather, famed Victorian Novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Such tossing is in the Lytton blood. The Report, as the London Times promptly declared last week, is "an admirable and exhaustive survey, compiled with the literary distinction traditional in the family of the Chairman...
...nations occupied the handsome hall just built by the City of Geneva for plenary sessions of the Disarmament Conference (last week sitting in committees). Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson, Canadian Labor Minister in the Conservative Cabinet of rich Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. Nettie Houston Bush, San Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Robert A. John, Mrs. Jennie M. Decker, Mrs. Madge Hearne. Franklin Williams, Royston Williams, and Marion Williams, all of Houston...