Word: priestleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
...inside forward, kicked the ball under the home team bar. HARVARD ARMY England, g. g., Horstman Holcombe, r.f. r.f., Jakle Stent, l.f. l.f., Tyler Roosevelt, r.h. r.h., Cummings Robinson, c.h. c.h., Bryles, Stegmaier Vincent, Burbank, Rickard, l.h. l.h., Stanton (Capt.) Manheimer, r.o. r.o., Neff Cles, Kelly, Motley, r.i. r.i., Priestley Grover, c. c., Hayes Stork (Capt.) l.i. l.i., Boys Wood, l.o. l.o., Russell...
...Captain Ted Robie, at center halfback, and "Slim" Robey, in the goal. The lineups: HARVARD ARMY England, g. g., Horsiman Holcombe, r.f. r.f., Jakle Stent, l.f. l.f., Tyler Roosevelt, r.h.b. r.h.b., Cummings Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Stegmaier Vincent, l.h.b. l.h.b., Stanton (Capt). Manheimer, r.o. r.o., Neff Clos, r.i. r.i., Priestley Grover, c. c., Hayes Stork (Capt.), l.i. l.i., Boys Wood, l.o. l.o., Russell 1938 WORCESTER Robey, g. g., Leary Sargent, r.f. r.f., Ryder Clark, l.f. l.f., Schwartz Alexandre, r.h.b. r.h.b., Hayes Robie (Capt.), c.h.b. c.h.b., Harrison White, l.h.b. l.h.b., Karle Earle, r.o. r.o., Dorsey Davis, r.i. r.i., Edmands Simpson...
...tawdry Goose Fair at Nottingham disgusted him. His home town of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he found changed for the worse. At Bradford a reunion of his old battalion made Author Priestley angrily reminiscent of the War. "I have had playmates, I have had companions, but all, all are gone; and they were killed by greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses...
...Author? Son of a Yorkshire schoolmaster, John Boynton Priestley still talks in his broad, matter-of-fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News...