Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...
...MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (343 pp.)-Nelson Algren-Doubleday...
Division Street, unless he could understand a childhood geared to Let Her Fly. In The Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren's compassionate understanding of Frankie and his world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist...
...Afterwards, Frankie took to the needle because it was easier than coping with life. When Frankie killed Louie Fomorowski, who sold him the stuff, the cops broke Sparrow down and made him squeal. They caught up with Frankie in his flophouse hideaway, broke in the door, and found the man with the golden arm dead. Frankie had hanged himself...
Grey Bread. The other two had a separate job. "Tiger," who had been a German Communist, had the job of spreading disaffection in Mannheim. "Paluka," a Ukranian who had joined the Free French, was to be Tiger's radio man. All three were flown over the lines. Then they jumped, buried their parachutes, established their" directions, threw away their compasses and started walking...