Word: edger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sick unto death of culture. The Cantabrigian mists, swirling their gyral shapes about the familiar tower, serve as an ethereal transport for his soul, and carry it to far climes. There, the allusions of Professor Babbitt forgotten, the Vagabond recalls an author he once read, a febrile man, Edger Rice Burroughs by name. As the memory returns, he hears the scream of a gorilla, charmingly uncultured. Then, all around him, swarming from the trees, comes a clan of the great apes. The vagabond sits in their midst, learning tricks that neither Burroughs nor his familiars of Brattle Street have ever...
...fascination of Edger Wallace to cultured minds was a phenomenon as remarkable as his productivity. It is said that an illustrious professor in our midst, among other people, subscribes to the opinion of his Majesty. The secret of that fasciculation was not merely in the relaxation he provided from mental effort; it sprang also from his tremendous virility. Those who saw "On The Spot," his play about Chicago gangsters, can appreciate the effervescing mixture of melodrama and force at which he was so adopt...