Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Cambridge in 1859, and the early part of his life has passed largely into saga form in his stories and reminiscences. Locally he worked on the Cambridge Horse Car Line, ran a tobacco shop near Beacon Hill, and for some time before he was enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences...
...Tough to be Famous (Warner). No sooner had the stage turned to the Lindbergh saga for a new pattern (Happy Landing, TIME, April 4) than the screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore...
Otheman Stevens in the Los Angeles Examiner: "Some time ago a story of Billy the Kid was issued and called a 'Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...
Familiar in the U. S. saga, glorified by literature of the Horatio Alger school, is the newsboy. The soul of independence, he buys his papers with his own money, sells them by his own energy and wits, pockets the profits for himself or hands them over to his needy family. He often grows into a tycoon who in later years can point with pride to his youthful enterprise.* For the Curtis-Martin newspapers of Philadelphia the tradition of newsboy self-reliance was a saving fact last week. It prompted a State Supreme Court decision permitting the newspapers to deal with...
...scene in the saga of the Rover Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...