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...came into Alcohol Tax headquarters in Washington last week; if they would look in a spot in the Maryland woods thirty miles from the capital, they would find a big still. Three agents hustled to the spot. When they got close, they sniffed the telltale reek of fermenting *Background: portrait of Founder A. P. Giannini. mash. Led by their noses, they found a nice big still and vats that could hold 7,000 gallons of mash, enough to produce 240 gallons of high-proof moonshine a day. As the agents dynamited the still, one said: "I've never seen...
...Disenchanted. As in What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall, Schulberg has borrowed the handy, ready-to-wear drape-shape of the thriller to dress up his story. He has filled that shoddy garment with a human being whose words and acts carry a raw, boozy reek of vitality. Manley Halliday is one of the few credible portraits of a writer in recent U.S. fiction...
...they" expert was no longer operating: Frederick N. Goldsmith, who thought the comic strips disclosed what "they" were buying & selling and who peddled the tips in his market letter, has been banned from the street by New York State. ' The New York Times index of 50 stocks last reek hit 148.21, only a shade under its 1946 high of 148.50. The New York Herald Tribune's index of 100 stocks reached 131.01, still under its 1946 high of 137.45. The most comprehensive index of all, a compilation by Barren's financial weekly of the prices...
...well organized, carefully if stiffly written, and sincere in tone. It manages with very few means to convey the musty gloom of the old Main Line houses, and to suggest that the gloom may be the emanation of the people in them, that the mustiness may be the reek of decaying personalities...
...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...