Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God (TIME, Feb. 27), is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL ix HER SEARCH FOR GOD-Bernard Shaw- Dodd, Mead...
...bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric colonels might take their apoplectic death from reading The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, and the Cambridge (England) public library has barred it, but readers of good-will should find old Author Shaw on their side...
...visit it will find almost always that, except for an attendant, he is quite alone, and for good reason. Very few of the volumes dumped into the Poetry Room are worth the trouble of reading, and those which are, most often will be found only after a tedious search. There is no catalogue system in use, and the small size of most of the volumes makes them particularly difficult to detect. An its inaccessibility is of course, a contributing factor in the unpopularity of the Room...
...public statement, answering charges in a CRIMSON editorial, Blake declared that the policy for recovery of books had permitted the search of the rooms of students who might reasonably be suspected of having them; but that it had not been intended that the search should be made by undergraduate librarian assistants...