Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," whether you think it's the Great American novel of real worth to make an impression on the reading public since "G--W--T--W--". . . Vardis Fisher tells the story of the Mormen trek in "Children of god." A capable book and to be recommended to both Fisher fans and enemies. . . Safest fiction of the year to give is C.S. Forester's "Captain Horatio Hornblower." Guaranteed to please all levels of comprehension, although in different degrees. . . "Here Lies...
...Bruins, Captain Harry Platt and George Fisher will be in at the forward posts, Jim Person at center, and Jack Padden and Tank Wilson at the guards...
Captain Hurry Platt and George Fisher are slated to be the starting forwards, Bom Person is the ranking center, and Jack Padden and Tank Wilson are the first-string guards. All of the five starters are lettermen who participated in last year's rout...
...that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans. I'd want exactly five bands and all that was due me. I'd want John Metoyer to do that for me, with all the trimmings...
...supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a note of caution: Yellow Truck, its almost wholly owned subsidiary, has enough business to carry it through June 1940, had been set to pay off its $14-a-share preferred dividend arrearage. Instead, the G. M. management drew in its horns, paid only half...