Word: get
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...
...name, big-scale, big-town musicomedy: the season's first show to fetch $6.60 on opening night. It tells of simple-souled Alonzo P. Goodhue (Victor Moore), snatched from happy hours of horseshoe-pitching in Topeka, Kans. to be ambassador to Soviet Russia. His one desire is to get fired. He kicks the Nazi ambassador in the belly and the world cheers. He takes a potshot at a stranger who turns out to be a dangerous counter-revolutionary assassin, and the Soviet Union goes hysterical with gratitude. Only when Alonzo tries to do a good deed is he promptly...
...Dudley Fitts, Kay Boyle, essays by Yvor Winters, a novel, White Mule, by William Carlos Williams, three anthologies of new writing. Loading his car with copies of his books, he sells them himself, arguing with hard-boiled booksellers from Manhattan to Detroit, who almost unanimously urge him to get out of the book business. Books are merchandise, they say, which clearly rules out New Directions publications...
Tropic of Cancer. How New Directions will get around the obstacles that have previously prevented publication of Tropic of Cancer in the U. S. is still unclear. This strange book is the work of a 47-year-old expatriate who was born in New York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things...
Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...