Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, after an absence of 18 years, she returned to the soft-coal country to gather material for a new novel. This time she saw gutted farms, depleted mines, nothing to evoke the dream of Carnegie and Frick except the taste of gritty coal dust...
...soft-coal country which gives the background to her novel, Author Turnbull saw some of the first coal mines opened in that section. Like many another child of Scotch-Irish farmers in the beautiful rolling hills of Westmoreland County, thrilled by the romance of Carnegie and Frick, she saw the coke ovens like a pillar of fire by night, the mine tippets a new wonder...
...second novel of a successful contributor to such publications as American Magazine, Remember the End ranks in literary and sentimental values with average competent popular fiction. In an earlier day it would probably have been a romantic version of the rise of Andrew Carnegie or Henry Clay Frick. But some misgiving about her hero's ambitions gives Author Turnbull's story a moral twist which is new to such fiction...
...Opening the first Breslau Gymnastic-Sport Festival last week, Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced: "Sport is a battle-and where there is a battle there are wounds and victims. Hitler's Germany, therefore, as the first country in the world, has created a fund of 100,000 marks yearly to provide for injured athletes...
From the Helen Clay Frick private collection of works of art there has recently come to the Fogg Museum a loan of some thirty paintings. On account of the number and diversified character, they are exhibited, at least for the present, among the Museum's other pictures. Many of them deserve mention, but the leaders in general interest are three portraits by Romney, Reynolds, and Raeburn...