Word: mallets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRIX FÉMINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with...
...York Times took editorial note of the end of the 19-day newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...
Tobias Schneebaum. tall (6 ft.), lean and brown, took a deep breath, brought the mallet smashing down on the rock placed on the fakir's chest. An appreciative cheer rose from the Peruvian natives...
...clean the stables," submitted a freshman as he flexed his new mallet, "He can't do this kind of work...
...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...