Word: guessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the fourth book I came to was Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key. The blurb on the back cover listed other books by the author, among them The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. I guess it is sort of odd that I hadn't gotten into mysteries before, and here was the man that wrote two of the best. Here was a guy who not only understood the plots, but actually wrote them...
...throughout the book we are constantly aware of the whole, the governing force that determines all the happenings of the story, the answer to the suggestion Malachi Constant makes to explain his own good luck--"I guess somebody up there likes...
Migraine of caves. Smudge-eyed, wide-eyed, gouged, horned, caved-in, they are silent: it is for you to guess what they hold back inside...
...knows how many bond issues will be floated by the authority, but it appears safe to guess that they could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, if the bond market holds up, since any Massachusetts institution "authorized by law to provide a program of education beyond the high school level," is eligible to participate in the program...
SOME PEOPLE over at Quincy House have pulled a neat stunt this week. They have produced two one-act plays, but somehow ended up with about five-sixths of one one-acter. I guess it shows a certain amount of good old American ingenuity on their part, but it also makes for an unfortunately disturbing evening of theatre...