Word: edna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleanly that Basilio's knees seemed almost to come unhinged. Robby looked as exhausted as his opponent when the fight ended, but the man who comes back had come back again, and he had done it with authority. "Daddy is the greatest," exulted Ray's lovely wife Edna Mae. "Nobody ever beats Daddy twice...
...PALACE (411 pp.)-Edna Ferber-Doubleday...
...Edna Ferber is still not over the bestseller habit, even though her books relentlessly suggest that bestsellers do not make the best reading. She has, as a critic once said of Edmund Wilson, "pencil, pad and purpose." Six years ago Novelist Ferber worked up some travel notes and impressions into Giant (TIME, Sept. 29, 1952), a novel about Texas that was as close to the mark as a tenderfoot's lariat, but waspish enough to infuriate Texans and amuse the citizens of the other 47 states. After Texas what? Alaska, naturally, and it is a safe bet that Edna...
Time Exposure. In Nottingham, England, Mrs. Edna May Bracewell won a divorce after testifying that in 13 years of marriage the only present her husband ever gave her was a watch, and that he took it back before she left...
...Beat Generation is not without cultural ancestors. In the beginning there was Edna St. Vincent Millay, burning her candle at both ends. And then there was Hemingway and the Lost Generation squirting wine sacks at each other. But beside Kerouac's band, they are all pickers. They were never "beatifically beat," as are On the Road's "... mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding...