Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DUSK AT THE GROVE?Samuel Rogers ?Little, Brown ($2.50). Books that win fat prizes generally get a big circulation, but not always the acclaim of critics. There should be little complaint, however, with the judges who picked Dusk at The Grove for this year's $10,000 Atlantic Prize Contest. The still waters of this quiet novel run deep. Author Rogers deals sparingly with what his people do, more with what they say, most with what they think. Ranging from 1909 to 1931 in a series of episodes, the story takes for its theme family loyalty in a changing...
Born in Madison, Wis., Author Braley was, he says, "a fat and rather repulsive baby." His father was a judge and politician with a secret ambition to write, mostly about Shakespeare. Young Berton was a prig until, after his father's death, he had to leave school and spend two years in a factory. At 18 he sold his first piece of verse to Judge for $3. After working his way through the University of Wisconsin, writing for college papers and holding down odd jobs, he began his career on a Butte, Mont. newspaper. When, after four years there...
...Havana leading U. S. businessmen expressed alarm at the setting of a precedent by President Mendieta which seemed to sweep away security for the U. S. control of U. S. investments in Cuba, but they congratulated ex-Manager Hart on a fat document he had obtained before resigning. In this the Cuban Government assumes liability for damages to the equipment of Cuban Telephone which may occur under its management. Telephone officials said that Interventor Montoulieu will soon find out that Cuban Telephone is not taking in enough money to meet its payroll. They added smugly that the operating deficit...
Corn into Meat. Most U. S. corn is fed to hogs, steers, chickens. Thus when corn soars so does pork, lard, eggs, beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high...
...fights, of the Lantenengo Street smart set of Gibbsville, of the town's underworld. Julian and Caroline English, married four years and still in love with each other, attend a Christmas Eve party at the Lantenengo Country Club. There Julian gets drunk, dashes his highball into the fat face of the richest man in town whose stories are a bore. Result: a black eye for the richest man in town, new enemies for Julian, a fight with Caroline...