Word: postman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Of Mice and Men), have become standard magazine features.' Most impressive official blessing on the novelette was pronounced last week when Publishers Little, Brown offered the winner and four runners-up, culled from 1,340 contestants, in their $2,500 Novelette Contest. Although...
From Mr. Kent's Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which...
Besides their warnings against the dangers of traffic, the Caesar-Marks songs are calculated to inculcate in children respect for law & order (The Policeman, The Fireman and the Postman, Too), practicality (Remember Your Name and Address), fortitude (Never Be Afraid of Anything). Observes Sticks and Stones and Bones...
...article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue of the S. E. P. hit the stands a week ahead of the Ivar Kreuger financial scandals with a long write-up of the Swedish 'match magnate by oldtime Postman Isaac Marcosson. In 1927, when the submarine S-4 was lost, the Post came on the stands the same week with an article by Commander Edward Ellsberg about the salvage of its sister ship...
...should give birth to a "new redeemer." Rapidly "Jesus the Christ's" views became so unorthodox, from a Divine point of view, that the Father felt obliged to write a sharp letter-addressed to Virgin Mary at a Palm Springs hotel and marked "No such" by a puzzled postman-reminding them that "To live an Evangelical Life, those in the likeness of females will not even so much as ride in an automobile correspondingly together, as couples. They will not walk correspondingly together nor have any personal, special communication, for such is in violation to My Spiritual Rule...