Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When questioned concerning the article, Lapham admitted reluctantly that he had read it. "It was more of a surprise to me than anyone else," he added ruefully...
...shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction he had followed coming home down the coast last summer...
...produced by Robinson Smith) will be remembered, if at all, as "the mystery story laid in the 42nd Street Public Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good...
...Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think, has all the makings of a good dictator and perhaps we ought to vote him President for life. He can sail a boat, has a pleasant smile, a warm heart, a beautiful mother, and he's well read...
...nuances of the art might have difficulty in seeing what the "novellas" gained by being three times as long as short stories. Said Novelist Dorothy Canfield Fisher of one story: "As beautifully simple, fresh, lucid and moving a recreation of a childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward J. O'Brien: "The art form that Boccaccio invented is born again full-blown in America at last." Said Novelist Dan Wickenden: "We have been rolling about on the floor over The Flying Yorkshireman...