Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WITHIN THESE WALLS?Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...
...claim is made that the Eastman Company, by its grip on distributors of motion picture film, compelled the delaying of deliveries to Eastman's competitors, as well as discriminate against its competitors' customers in the granting of credits...
...TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.-This classic of blue grass feuds has made the jump to the screen with the blue of its grass and the scarlet of its feuds unimpaired. There are thrilling moments while the feudists grip their revolvers in one hand, their moonshine jugs in the other, their rifles between their teeth...
Prayer: Five hundred copies of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdiek's book, The Meaning of Prayer, were ordered by the head of a large corporation for his employees. They were presented with this message: " If you can get a grip on a faith like that it's going to mean the greatest year this company ever...
...declaring that he will sponsor a measure liberalizing the franchise (now restricted to male taxpayers 25 years of age and older), Kato has at least temporarily silenced his critics and renewed his grip on the Premiership...