Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queer Wynant family too well-until a gunman breaks into his hotel room early one morning to crease him with a bullet. Then he gets grudgingly busy. Before Wynant is found, two more murders are uncovered. More conventional in plot than his earlier books and less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least a dozen murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled...
...West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...
...thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...
...list of contents also includes "Bear," by John Cromwell '36, "A Later Harvest," by John C. Walcott '34, "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," by Charles H. Newton '36, and "Seven Nights in the Mountains," by Cyrus L. Sulzberger '34. Three poems are to be "Keep Smiling," by Charles A. Smart '26, "A Virgin," by James L. Boyle '35, and "The Seventh Seal," by Eben Crowley...
...interest rate of .375% (compared to .22% on Treasury bills). *The Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies...