Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...about, one of the most successful of London's department stores, now has annual sales of some $75,000,000. Among the earliest of Harry Selfridge's stunts was an advertisement in the form of an institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes" (the personal biographer of Alexander the Great). The "Callisthenes" articles caught British fancy at once, have long been profitable for the store. Two months ago Selfridge's "Callisthenes" hopped the sea, made its debut as an advertisement in New York's Herald Tribune. U. S. storekeepers wondered...
Hemingway himself did little to encourage any other attitude. With The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these...
...phenomenon of such elephantine best-sellers as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...