Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ANGELES RECORD MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL SIX ENGLISH DAILIES HAS NEVER BEEN QUOTE FOE OF LABOR UNIONS UNQUOTE AS ANY LABOR LEADER CAN TELL YOU STOP LIKEWISE IT HAS NOT SUPPRESSED NEWS OF EQUITY STRUGGLE BUT HAS FULLY PROMINENTLY AND FEARLESSLY PRESENTED NEWS OF BOTH SIDES STOP ASK FRANK GILMORE AND WILL HAYS STOP...
Still under indictment for murder last week, but by no means under arrest, was that frank and open swaggerthug, General Chang Tsung-chang, rich with the loot of Shantung, his former bailiwick. Fortnight ago Chang was-as he later expressed it-"handling a pistol." The thing went off and killed handsome young Prince Hsien Kai, cousin of China's deposed Boy Emperor Henry P'u-yi ("Henry") (TIME, Aug. 12). The shooting occurred in the garden of Chang's hotel at Beppu, a Japanese island summer resort. Last week the Beppu police made no protest when indicted...
FAREWELL TO PARADISE-Frank Thiess-Knopf ($2). To those who have never read him, Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...Significance. Like the Booth Tarkington of Penrod, Arthur Thiess is sensitive to the dreams and growth of boys and girls. Unlike the U. S. author, Frank Thiess probes deeply, uncovers with tender hand, like a rose-lover, their straining growth...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...