Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...
...George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise Bogan; Biographer Matthew Josephson; Novelists Glenway Wescott. Leonard Ehrlich: Composer Paul Nordoff; Economists Henry Schultz and Charles Frederick Roos; historians, physicists, chemists, biologists...
Accompanying The Spirit of the Dance to the cellar went Gwen Lux's Eve, while Manhattan's art world ranted, tore its hair. Said Roxy: "Mrs. Rockefeller may like them. Mr. Rockefeller may like them. . . . But I don't like them. I think they're ugly. Take them away...