Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Released from his latest term at Sing Sing last July, Owney Madden is now at large.) Of another Walker, Manhattan's ex-Mayor James John, he says: "If he had wanted to study, he could have led the class"; quotes Jimmy's definition of a reformer: "A guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." He retails the philosophy of Barney Gallant, Latvian Jew who once shared an apartment with Eugene O'Neill, later became Greenwich Village's night-club tycoon: "No isms or cults are any good. Every man should...
Ernest Hemingway's critics are beginning to call him a professional Hard Guy, hint that at bottom he is an adolescent sentimentalist. His followers crane their necks up at him as if he were a Paul Bunyan of literature, striding from strength to strength. Plain readers read him because he sometimes writes stories that hold them breathless. All three will find what they are looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects...
...disembark without incurring the charge of sudden desertion of the ship. On top of all this comes, as we have pointed out, the impending convention of the country's Mad Hatters. Bad as things appear to be now, by January there may be loud, insistent cries for an American Guy Fawkes...
...bases with one out and Pinch-hitter Cliff Bolton went to bat. Out from the Giants' bench raced Charley Dressen. a substitute third baseman who had not had his hands on the ball throughout the series. He waylaid Manager Terry. "Play back. Bill," he begged. "I know this guy Bolton from the minors. He hits hard but he's the slowest man in the league. Play him for a double play!" Astonished, Terry obeyed, ordered his infielders back. True to Dressen's word. Bolton burned a drive to shortstop, lumbered toward first. Ryan was well prepared...
...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...