Word: penrods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last wartime's best sellers appear particularly relevant: Winston Churchill's A Far Country, Penrod, Tish, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, Belgium's Agony...
...When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...
...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...
Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful...
...Brother Rat, What a Life travels pretty much in the same direction. Substituting high school for military academy, What a Life is as adolescent as a changing voice, as clean as a West Pointer's white ducks. Chief amusement centres in Henry Aldrich (Ezra Stone), a cross between Penrod and Willie Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing, rumpled, rattled, rueful by turns, Henry grows into that rare thing on the stage...