Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under the influence...
...exercise he ever took. > In Bourg, France, where van Paassen lived for a time, he stopped to chat with a gravedigger, said he was on his way to Paris to write political notes on Laval. From the bottom of a slimy pit, tossing up half-rotten skulls to make room for a new corpse, the gravedigger shook his head and said: "A dirty job, la politique, Monsieur Pierre, a very foul business...
FATAL DESCENT-John Rhode & Carter Dickson-Dodd, Mead ($2). A meticulous Scotland Yard inspector and a theorizing police surgeon solve the shooting of a London publisher in his private elevator. Humorous, with an ingenious solution of the hermetically-sealed-room problem...
...streets who raised Adolf Hitler to power, Herr Streicher, no university man, flayed learning as "academic twaddle," screamed: "I am no academic lecturer, but I shall lower myself for once to speak from an academic rostrum. ... It is no honor to me to speak here. But this room is honored by my presence...
...Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry cobras. Typical sequence: battle...