Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aroused more curiosity than the others. Few operagoers had heard of her until the Metropolitan announced a few weeks ago that it had engaged her. Then it became generally known that she was a protegee of Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. that her grandfather was Murat Halstead. Cincinnati journalist famed among other things for having witnessed and vividly described the hanging of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. Margaret Halstead's father, friend of Lawyer Cravath, was until recently U. S. Consul General in London. His strapping soprano daughter was a nervous, inexperienced siren as Venus in Tannhäuser last...
...discoveries she made within the year, which it would have been convenient to have made earlier. The first of these was that her husband had no natural qualifications for the calling of vineyardist." So Mary went to work to support herself, got jobs in a boardinghouse, as teacher, actress, journalist, press-agent (for the Panama-Pacific Exposition). Finally she divorced Husband Wallace. Mary found she liked the Southwest, wrote about it in "all kinds" of books. Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling...
...ANXIOUS DAYS-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Story of an old-fashioned English gentleman, by England's popular journalist-author. MEN AGAINST DEATH-Paul de Kruif - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). True tales of little-known fighters against disease. THE CAT WHO SAW GOD-Anna Gordon Keown-Morrow ($2.50). Late great Emperor Nero takes possession of the body of a cat, settles down with an English spinster. Amusing in the English manner...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...
TITANS OF LITERATURE-Burton Rascoe-Putnam ($3.75). Peeps at literary tycoons by a bright little journalist-editor...