Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers hope to "shoot" the eclipse from airplanes, among them Dr. Clyde Fisher, president of the Amateur Astronomers Association, near Fryeburg, Me.: Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric at Concord, N. H. John Wells of Southbridge, Mass, will fly over the White Mountains in an autogiro...
...Civic Centre on the slightly raised extension of Capitol Hill. They spend their weekends at the Cherry Hills or Denver Country Club or on estates in the mountains. In the summer stock companies play at Elitch Gardens. Rich and poor shop at the big drygoods store of Daniels & Fisher which has a high tower like Venice's Campanile...
Detective stories are based upon the law of improbabilities. To achieve its purpose of shocking readers, every detective story must have, if not a new trick, at least a new combination of old ones. Author Fisher uses two old ones: reanimation and double dual identity. His readers may be able to control their jitters when someone who looks a great deal like poor old Frimbo suddenly enters the proceedings, alive, hearty and verbose. They will be amazed at what reappearing Frimbo has to say about death-rites in the African tribe of which he is king; at what he keeps...
...Author Fisher is a young Negro physician who lives and practices in Jamaica, L. I. His detective story is one of the first by a Negro and with an all-Negro cast Negroes are suitable for mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber...
...idea of a "machine-made house" may not be accepted quickly. But Architect Fisher feels that when people see such homes are cheaper, more attractive, more comfortable to live in, prejudice will diminish. He points out that mass-production has increased rather than hurt the functional and esthetic beauty of automobiles. Large advertising campaigns will be put on and when competitors arrive, the structural features of various types of houses may be as widely-known and discussed as Floating Power and Free Wheeling...