Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends, their bons mots and their ridiculous but engaging selfimportance. The scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner...
...favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village pub. One winter night she got drunk in the graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became an arty teashop, which was of course a failure...
...years after Publisher Scripps availed himself of the services of a dynamic young Michiganian named Milton A. McRae, who re tired in another 13 years. They became the Scripps-Howard papers in 1922 after a conversation in which small Roy Howard, then of the United Press, told large Pub lisher Scripps that he did not believe in those newspapers. They had, he said, lost sight of the best social interest of the times and instead of People's Champions had become chronic growlers...
...Henry J. Allen . . . has 'sold himself down the river.' [The Beacon] has fallen into the hands of a young man with a Yiddish name, given and family, who came out of the sticks with a million and a half and picked it up. . . . The new pub lisher is filling the paper with pictures and complimentary references to himself. He seems to be quite a guy and frankly admits it. But we doubt if he ever learns to speak the Kansas language as Henry speaks...
Horace Liveright, Manhattan pub lisher, denied he would retire from publishing, said he was going to Hollywood to work for Paramount because "all good book publishers must go to Hollywood...