Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story of imminent fascism in a Midwest State capital, it is little more than a leftwing city guide, mainly suggests that Author Sandoz writes much better about such intimate subjects as her father (Old Jules...
...English, has been traveling most of the past 15 years. His Timetable for Tramps, purporting to be the first "textbook" on its subject, is a shrewdly organized, gracefully written set of casual essays on travel as a disease, an art, a religion. Blurred at times by a little too much literary charm, as a textbook it is suggestive rather than definitive. These faults aside, it is one of the more perceptive and engaging of "travel books...
...WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's genteel screwballs...
...jolly old hills of England, and dwell upon the good fellowship which blesses Anglo-American relations. If he is adroit at the art--and obviously he is adroit, or Britain would never have let such a valuable man go in time of war -- American radio executives should learn much which will profoundly affect their later treatment of war news...
...Crimson defense operated smoothly in the second period and veteran goalie Vint Freedley again and again warded off St. Nicks Attacks. As much as any other member of the team, Freedley, with his natural ability of knowing when to come out from the cage, deserved credit for Hodder's initial success...