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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time...
...competition will be six or eight weeks in length, with about an hour a day required of each candidate's time. Daily assignments will be posed on the bulletin board in the Union...
...irrelevant ones, the U. S. Press last week reared, as it does each year, that airy edifice, the Annual Business & Finance Review. In infinite variations, combinations and permutations the business chronicle of 1935 was amplified, summarized, dissected, debated, digested, analyzed, expounded, recapitulated and generally spun out to in credible length in thousands of columns in hundreds of U. S. dailies. For innumerable predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 1936 and far beyond the same set of simple facts also served. Year-end reviews are largely newspaper promotional efforts limited in size only by the amount of advertising available. As publishing phenomena...
...basis of sheer poundage the New York Sun won hands down last week, its special "Voice of Business" edition running 80 pages. So pressed for filler was the Sun that it included a book-length history, The Making of America, and several of Grover Cleveland's state papers...
...Marietta reminded readers of Anthony Adverse, not only by its length (813 pp.) but by its time (18th Century), its scene (Italy), its general scheme (picaresque chronicle). And like Anthony, Marietta's son was long aborning. Aside from these surface similarities, The Son of Marietta could not fairly be compared with Anthony Adverse, in all senses a bigger book. More protracted than packed, Author Fabricius' narrative could be simply described as a tale of guilty mother love and a spoiled son who turned out according to rule. Really two separate novels laid end to end, it gave thrifty...