Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critic Thomas King Whipple, who usually writes weighty essays on modern poetry and highbrow fiction, once took a critic's holiday and made a searching analysis of the works of Zane Grey in The Saturday Review of Literature. At that time the prolific Western-story writer had turned out 33 books, with a total sale of about 10,000,000 copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers...
...lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...
Although a canny Eli crew captured the 150-lb. title in the Joe Wright Cup rogatta at Princeton last Saturday, it was Coach Bort Haines' polished Crimson eights which gained the greatest honors of the day by smashing course records on the Lake Carnegie. Honley distance...
This infield which played errorless ball last Saturday is probably the best combination in the league. Ellis Bacon has been awarded the starting post behind the plate, at least for the Cornell game...
Open to students who have had mathematics sufficient for the solution of triangles and who are able to use logarithms, the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, opens its summer season on Saturday, June 25, and continues for eight weeks, ending Friday, August...