Word: guidebook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from launching a beauty magazine. She told him he had the publishing urge without a clear-cut editorial program. This week the Spadeas thought they had at last fused a sure-fire formula, optimistically put upon American News Co. stands 50,000 copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure, how to purse and paint their lips, how to apply face powder. Feature article of the first issue is "Your Bosom...
...Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness of the home...
...elected either by popular vote or by a session of their peers for theirs is usually a self-appointed task. But few better-qualified men could have been chosen to write a literary history of his contemporaries than Critic-Editor Frank Swinnerton. His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians (Henry James to T. S. Eliot) will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers; it does not pretend to be the last word in a never-ending critical argument...
...existent in Your Child Is Normal, by Dr. Grace Adams, published last week.* A psychologist whose 15 years of experience include research at Cornell University, social work among Southern mill children and psychiatric treatment of rich "problem children" in Manhattan, Dr. Adams is married, childless. Her book is a guidebook to children, "a unique, interesting and likable class of human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior has been minutely observed and recorded by psychologists, it may lead impartial readers to conclude that children are a terrifying breed, that successfully applying...
...popularity he showed that in the long run U. S. readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs no synopsis-guidebook. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, son of a poor blacksmith. Confederate soldier, unreconstructed rebel, has become in his old age the big man of his Alabama town. Banker and pillar of the church, he has left far behind him his wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune...