Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over the top window of Manhattan's tallest building hover perpetually two genuine angels, standing guard over a soul imprisoned in a steel girder...
...orderly as a flock of well-shepherded sheep, 453 left-minded U. S. novelists, poets, critics and journalists met last fortnight in Manhattan. Brought together as the Third American Writers' Congress, they and an audience of more than 2,500 were addressed on opening night in Carnegie Hall by English Novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner ("The pen is not mightier than the sword, but it is as mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will...
Kyra Goritzina was aware of the parallel between her lot and that of the White Russian aristocrats-turned-servants in Tovarich, which she saw in the movies and did not like. The Goritzins had their chance at a Tovarich performance when, working for a consul general in Manhattan, they were told that some "Red Commissars" were coming for lunch. The Goritzins took that day off, went to the movies...
Short-memoried newspaper readers still remember the gruesome case of John Warde, 26-year-old schizophrenic, who one morning last July climbed out on a 17th-story ledge of Manhattan's Hotel Gotham, eleven hours later jumped to a smashing death as 10,000 horrified watchers yelled: "There he goes...
...years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...