Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When hoarse ecstatic Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl goes to his bed at night, one of the things that sets his large ears tingling is the thought that it was due to his persistent efforts that the sharp-eyed wife of Novelist Sinclair Lewis was given a personal interview by the still unrecognized Adolf Hitler in 1931. The thin booklet that resulted from that interview has made Brownshirts see red ever since...
...early morning of the fourth day and the fight that had ended was the longest (by 42 hours) on record between man and fish. When Angler Howell reached shore he weighed his catch. Its 792 lb. were 34 lb. heavier than the record Nova Scotia tuna caught by Novelist Zane Grey in 1929, 6 lb. lighter than the world's record rod and reel tuna caught by Colonel E. T. Peel off Scarborough, England, two years...
...doubtless true that the Puerto Ricans who were imported into Hawaii were drawn largely from the Negro and mixed-blood elements. But if some of the surplus Negro population of Mississippi had been taken out there, not even a Northern novelist would speak of "7,000 Puerto Ricans, 10,000 Mississippians, 45,000 whites...
...hour at a roulette wheel in the Casino at Juan-les-Pins, France. Novelist E. Phillips Oppenheim won 200,000 francs ($13,180). Said Gambler Oppenheim: "A very amusing pastime...
...Homer Cummings calls her husband (6 ft. 2) 'Pinkie.' . . . Isa Glenn, novelist, meeting Mrs. Johnson at tea, blurted out: 'Oh, Johnson's all right, just so it's no relation of that terrible general' -and spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a happy ending...