Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Rathbone, whose clerical garb does not prevent him from wearing his usual monstrously cut peg trousers, attends a house party, asks the guests what they want most on earth. The actress (Mary Nash) wants applause and to play Lady Macbeth; the painter (Ernest Cossart) to paint beautifully; the novelist (Ernest Thesiger) to achieve literary kudos; the minister's frowzy wife (Cecilia Loftus) to do her duty; the host (Arthur Byron) wants comfort; his lovely mistress (Diana Wynward) wants love; the disillusioned minister (Robert Lorain) desires advancement so that he may denounce God from the tip-top of High Church...
...Rose M. Sacco, relict of Nicola Sacco ("Sacco-Vanzetti case") ; and one Ermano Bianchini; 18 months after her husband was electrocuted (1927). Last week her son, Dante, departed for Europe under the charge of Edward Holton James, retired lawyer, international radical, (reputed) nephew of the late great Brothers James, Novelist Henry, Philosopher William...
...arrested for murder. Everything looked very black indeed and Dick might have swung for it had not the British sense of justice, ably abetted by Author Young, rescued our hero from an undeserved fate. The Author, Francis Brett Young. 47, even more versatile than William McFee. is a novelist-musician-doctor. He practiced literature and medicine simultaneously, for a long time was more successful in diagnosing private ailments than the public taste. During the War he worked hard in the Royal Army Medical Corps, was invalided back from East Africa a 60% disability from malaria. After the Armistice...
...Think of the insight into the life of man we would get from an exact report of a morning's profane conversations in a shipyard at Cadiz when the Armada was fitting out! The trouble with a poet, and a novelist too, very often, is that he has never done the thing himself. He hate's work, and if by chance he has to work at the bench or in a mill, he becomes at once a wage slave and imagines all other workers have the same feeling towards work that he has." The words are Chief Engineer Spenlove...
...entrance watched, with Colt himself in the next room, Murderee Carewe's death-scream came on schedule. Before Colt could unravel the tangled clues, two more victims died horribly. Writing detective stories is a sideline for Author "Anthony Abbot." According to Publishers Covici & Friede he is "a well-known novelist and music critic." While a newshawk he was the confidant of a real, live Manhattan Police Commissioner, learned about crime from him. Author Abbot is advertised as rising late, never eating before 7 p. m., knowing more Manhattan policemen by their first names than the Police Commissioner himself...