Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept mum when she took it and him away on a flying trip. High in the air Scamper's paws went to sleep. When he moved, he was discovered as a stowaway. Grandmother, distressed at his torn clothes, converted a partially finished green sweater into a rabbit jacket before the trip was over, shipped Scamper home to the White House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
...Translations of it have already been arranged in Italian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and English. In this country the book will be published in the Spring. Alfred A. Knopf has just sent the manuscript to the printer, and Mr. Elmer Adler, noted typographer and designer, is at work preparing the jacket. "Joseph and His Brothers" is Thomas Mann's first novel since 1924, when "The Magic Mountain," was published...
...first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random...
Incidentally, the little volume is a delight to the eye and the hand, and a rebuke to the shoddy bookmaking of the big Eastern publishers in this economical day. The publishers' complete list inside the jacket is not impressive; but if they keep up the literary and crafts, manship standards of this book, there is no reason why men should not beat a path to their Caldwell, Idaho, door...