Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another genius, Edgar Wallace did not reach maturity until he was past 40. His full flowering came after the War. A new publisher saw Wallace's mass-production possibilities. He divorced his mousy wife, married his shrewd secretary, 23 years his junior, shaved his Old Bill mustache, hired a speed typist, slept a maximum five or six hours a night, primed himself for writing on gallons of tea, handfuls of cigarettes. By 1928 he was making $250,000 a year, owned a string of race horses (they lost as consistently as he did at poker), a fleet...
Like his hero, 45-year-old Author Singer, son of a Warsaw Rabbi, grew up in extreme poverty. Unlike his hero, he abandoned his studies for the Rabbinate out of distaste rather than necessity. An itinerant tutor, salesman, artist's model, he served in the Russian army, saw the German occupation of Poland, weathered the Polish Revolution. Since 1922, when he published his first book of short stories, most of his work has been published in the Jewish Daily Forward, which also sent him to the Soviet Union as correspondent in 1926. Since 1934 Author Singer, his wife...
...Administration attempt to enlist public opinion behind the peace effort came as the A. F. L. - C. I. O. conferees themselves admitted privately that they saw little likelihood of settling immediately their struggle for supremacy...
...thousand times before. Her baggage must be torn from her small hands and lifted to the rack above. Helplessly, Vag watched the red-cap go through the motions. Still, there was hope. The girl had turned her blue eyes to the pages of a book, and then Vag saw his chance. She was cramming desperately for an exam, and if it were only in his field, or even English 35, he would throw his C minus brain at her feet. But she was pondering on Willa Cather. Vag was crushed completely, and he knew it. He peered over his shoulder...
...McKellar of Yale, but he did not allow the sharp-shooting Eli to work his way in for many short shots. All of his baskets came from well out in the floor. Sullivan, Ruml, and Heckel have all had important roles on the squad this year, and they all saw service against the Loefflermen...