Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GROPE CARRIES ON-F. O. Mann-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Sequel to the Trollopeian Albert Grope (TIME, Sept...
...When the zombies grope their way toward their master, who is in peril...
...beginning of the book, Albert Grope is going to board school while his widowed mother chars, washes, mangles (irons). He gets a job with a butcher and is discharged. He gets a job with a second-hand bookdealer and out of his savings, when the dealer dies, sets up his own shop. Presently he branches into the advertising business and this sideline is so profitable that he soon has a factory and a fat income...
...detailed, usually comic portraits of minor characters, and in a Dickensian wealth of incident that Author Mann most openly and ably copies the Victorians. Grope's second employer, the bookdealer, gives all his time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates him to such a degree that, on the night he dies, he likens her manner of getting into bed to that of an elephant; Grope's landlady, when he moves to finer lodgings, gives a banquet for him and makes her shy, beer-drinking husband give a speech. The tartness of Author Mann...
...Board of Education. In 1924, he was lent by the Board of Education to investigate and report on the educational system of Egypt and the Sudan. Hitherto a better known educationalist than writer, he has published three volumes of verse; edited, in 1912, The Works of Thomas Deloney. Albert Grope is the September selection of the Book League of America...