Word: knopf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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POEMS-Clinch Calkins-Knopf...
...press stand, Writer H. L. Mencken took off his coat, revealing a cocoa-colored shirt and loud suspenders. Next to Writer Mencken, Publisher Alfred A. ("Borzoi") Knopf of the American Mercury climbed up on the desk and exposed several yards of film in his small cinema camera. Then, saving the film in case something else should happen, Publisher Knopf sat down again...
...GANGS OF NEW YORK-An Informal History of the Underworld-Herbert Asbury-Knopf...
...ROAD TO HEAVEN-Thomas Beer -Knopf ($2.50). If you know where Heaven is, the hardships by the way are endurable. Lamon Coe knew that Heaven was his father's farm in Zerbetta, Ohio, and therefore tolerated an exile cluttered with boxing in Los Angeles, acting in cinema, selling sporting goods in Boston, and finally life in the big city with his refined Cousin Abner. New York's smells, noises, intellectuals, palled on Lamon until he discovered Frankie de Lima (she had adopted the name of her Ohio home-town). Lamon basked in the glow of her vivacity, until...
QUIET CITIES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($2.50). With a keen sense for things past, Hergesheimer revives the life of early American cities, immortalizing forgotten airs and manners in a prose of intricate beauty. His leisurely preface regrets the noise and bustle that have superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman...