Word: haras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARIETTA-Johan Fabricius-Little, Brown ($3). Looking back on the earlier 1930's, what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply...
...strength of a protest from Notre Dame's Father John O'Hara, Professor Owen apologized, "if any statement of mine is untrue." To newshawks he observed: "Keep your eye on that 'if.' " For the next day's papers. Professor Owen waded into the Rose Bowl game, which he characterized as a $1,000,000 "racket...
BUTTERFIELD 8-John O'Hara-Harcourt, Brace...
Besides announcing the names of 20 Cardinals-to-be (see above), Pope Pius XI last week filled two vacant U. S. bishoprics. To shepherd all the Catholics of Georgia as Bishop of Savannah, he appointed Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, 40, who has been auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia since 1929. Appointed to be Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette was Auxiliary Bishop Joseph C. Plagens, 55, of Detroit, onetime pastor of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church...
...carried the miserable animal to a nearby farmhouse. The farmer promptly led him to a tree, pointed to a poster. It was Sox. Hastily summoned, a veterinarian gave the dog an injection of glucose and a 50-50 chance to live, rushed it to the O'Haras' home in Pawtucket. There last week Sox, wasted from 20 to 6½ lb., was under constant care of two veterinarians and Mrs. O'Hara. Finder Kelley, more concerned with his creditors than with Sox's health, kept mum about what he would do with his $1,000 windfall...