Word: hammett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huber placed Shapley's name with those of Paul Robeson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, and other "well-known figures...
Five in a Row. Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
...Dashiell Hammett...
...every day, writes steadily until 9, works with a secretary until noon. After lunch and a nap he writes again until 5, has tea and receives friends. He hates to lose at solitaire or chess, loves the movies. A voracious reader, he rates Dashiell Hammett with Faulkner and Steinbeck, was greatly impressed by the Kinsey Report...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...