Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crowther O'Dell outfit: Ends, Smith and Green; tackles, Schmidt and Spring; guards, Klein and Nee; center, Fearon; backs, Oakes, Ford, Boston and Watt...
...bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons...
...story back of No Mean City is almost more significant than the one it tells. Alexander McArthur had lost his job in Glasgow in 1929, spent the next five years writing novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably...
...MEAN CITY-Alexander McArthur & H. Kingsley Long-Longmans, Green...
MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...