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GREAT SON-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran...
...Edna Ferber once remarked, "writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud," she is easily one of the world's most determined plodders. So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, American Beauty, Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk have established her as a writer who is apparently unable to produce either a disappointing or a startling book. Great Son, though less strongly plotted than its predecessors, is the dependable Ferber brand of slickly written, cinemadaptable Americana...
Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
Suitcaseful. In Philadelphia, the thief who stole Gladys Ferber's suitcase may or may not have been happy about the swag in it: two strip-tease dresses, a string of beads, three feathers, a sarong, a net brassiere, a rhinestone G-string, and a purple Cellophane shirt...
...Author Edna Ferber, he was a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." To Novelist Charles Brackett, he seemed "a competent old horror with a style that combined clear treacle and pure black bile." Critic Percy Hammond found him "a mountainous jelly of hips, jowls and torso [but with] brains sinewy and athletic." Caustic Wit Dorothy Parker thought that he did "more kindness" than anyone she had ever known...