Word: hammocks
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...year's first run on what the trade calls "hammock literature" was reported by one bookstore. Comes the hot weather, they said, and college students start to catch up on their light reading. Arnold Toynbee's "Study of History" was named as a definitely cold weather book, while the sweltering reader picks up P. G. Wodehouse, or Faith Baldwin...
...best hammock that the remote town of Rio Branco could provide, lean Alexander Daveron relaxed and invited his soul. What he would do next he had no idea. But of one thing he was certain-mules would have no part...
Aldington obviously meant it to be hammock reading, and no more. But except for a few writing tricks, and a display of erudition, no summer reader would recognize it as the work of the man who wrote World War I's bitter Death of a Hero, or that first-rate biography of Wellington, The Duke...
...evening the new chum's uniform hung on him like a sack. He was run over by the crew of the foretop in a rush for hammocks and, when he staggered to the fo'c'sle with his own bursting hammock, was coldly asked by an officer if he was "carrying guts to a bear." After making up the hammock with non-regulation sheets as large as small sails, he fell out of it twice...
Radio's Fred Allen is the subject in the current issue. When Author Maurice Zolotow writes: "The bags under his eyes come to look like fugitives from a hammock factory," the sentence is pencil-ringed and Funnyman Allen retorts in the margin: "Come now. My bags aren't that big. My eyes just look as though they are peeping over two dirty ping-pong balls." When Zolotow reports: "Allen got his first break when he played the lead in Polly, a 1928 musical," Allen corrects him testily: "In 1921 I toured with Nora Bayes and Lew Fields...