Word: plum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene in Bronx. Robert Cantwell makes a few pointed, sensible remarks on modern marriage. Versifiers Leonard Bacon, Philip Wylie, Baron Ireland do their feeble best to keep their...
Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give...
...endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story...
...Embassy was making "the sharpest protest," Mr. Churchill was on the electioneering stump having another fling at Adolf Hitler. Soon in British Government circles the word passed that if the Realmleader was really aroused it would be impossible, all because of a potboiler, to give Mr. Churchill the Cabinet plum he has been promised...
...Christmas recess this year is to include one week and four days of class-time; twelve days in all. This is about the usual length. One is just beginning to fill one's soul with plum pudding and Father Noel when it is time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes...