Word: perelman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Examiners Samuel Stansfield and William F. Gilroy were indicted by a Federal grand jury on two counts: conspiring to defraud the Government, accepting bribes. Also indicted last week were customs brokers and a truckman involved in the conspiracy. Previously indicted, sentenced to Atlanta, were Paul Rabkin and Joseph Y Perelman, onetime Superfine Watch Co. partners, by questioning whom Federal Judge Henry Warren Goddard hopes to arrest more of their associates. Last week he told them: "I don't believe your story. Both of you men have got to unburden yourselves about this entire business...
PARLOR, BEDLAM & BATH-S. J. Perelman & Q. J. Reynolds-Liveright...
Sidney J. Perelman is Judge's able artist-author of many a crazy drawing, crazy patter. His form of humor: to satirize the commonplace by exaggerating it. His puns are so startling they are often funny; his patchwork of hackneyed phrases so unexpected and alliterative it often shocks you into laughter. Alliterative, too, are his illustrations. With Quentin J. Reynolds of the New York Evening World he has written a lively, whimsical, improbable but satirical yarn in which his hand is evident but not quite evident enough. The chapter-headings, take-offs on an old tradition, are obviously Perelman...
...charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week...