Word: postman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel can be made to tell almost anything, from the subconscious thoughts of a sleeping postman (James Joyce's Work in Progress) to how to mind the baby (Viña Delmar's Bad Girl). Josephine Lawrence's novels tell how the wolf can sneak up to a middle-class door, gobble up plain everyday householders before they know it. Years Are So Long (TIME, July 9, 1934) showed that there is often no home for the aged, even if they have done more with their youth than gather rosebuds. If I Have Four Apples neatly demonstrates...
...Earle V. Pierce preaches just around the corner from me. He's the sensitive spirit who in your July 15 issue deplores your "stench of debasing animalism" and wistfully looks forward to the day when the postman will no longer force him to accept TIME. Seeing his letter today (Sunday), and remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake...
...Author. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph...
Flush with profits, von Ribbentrop turned to dabbling in German politics at a period when any mention of Adolf Hitler would cause President von Hindenburg to snort: "I wouldn't appoint that Austrian poltroon so much as a postman!" Undismayed, Major von Ribbentrop kept dropping hints among Der Feldmarschall's military entourage that it might be the smart thing to make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz...
...boiled manner could make even a fairytale come true. The result was more like a parody than a parable-as if General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) may fall under the spell of Author Fessier's glittering...