Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...
Died. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 71, author (The White Company, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days...
...Wilson (Cards) has a good job in a silk mill in Philadelphia. Bob Shawkey (manager, Yanks) and Herb Pennock (Yanks) would rather go after moose than anything else. Goose Goslin (Senators) farms 500 acres in New Jersey. In North Carolina Jakie May (Reds) hunts possums and coons with 20 hound dogs. Waite Hoyt (Yanks) and Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during...
...Psiakrew! Hound's Blood!" he swore, "stand where you are before I blow off your heads...
...Pekingese, a wire-haired fox terrier, a beagle, an English bulldog, a shepherd and an Irish setter-paraded at last. The judges gave the gate to Delaware Kate, seemed wary of the famed shepherd, Giralda's Lola. Would they like Champion Meadow Lark Watchman, the merry beagle? A hound-dog is rarely judged champion of champions, and last year a collie beat a wire-haired fox-terrier. The judge went back to Giralda's Lola, and narrowed his job down to her, the beagle, and Pendley Calling of Blarney, the wire-haired fox, owned by John Bates...