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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moore's aims in his later work, the "prose epics" which he considered his masterpieces, which critics like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Humbert Wolfe believe have "re-created" the novel, and which few ordinary mortals ever read. Moore dedicated himself with the single-mindedness of a fanatic to the search for an "absolute prose." He imposed on himself "a rule of evenness, a rule against emotional emphasis, a refusal not only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...His aim was to write...
Threatened with impeachment by politicians, denounced by the Press and reviled by a vengeful public. Governor Hoffman directed the State Police "to continue their search for any other person or persons involved in the crime"; explained his action thus: "I ... share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed [Hauptmann] in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime...
...prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...
...Pilot Marshall radioed that all was well, the weather clear, the plane at 3,000 ft. Half hour later, with no further word, Memphis began calling, got no answer. Soon Little Rock reported The Southerner overdue. Frantically alarmed, American Airlines launched a search. Before it discovered anything, a farmer telephoned shocking news in from the hamlet of Goodwin...
Dismayed but not losing his presence of mind. Dr. von Grosse laboriously located the crumbs by microscopic search, popped them into a tube of hydrofluoric acid where they disappeared beyond even microscopic view. From the acid. Dr. von Grosse said last week, he hopes eventually to extract the protoactinium in a single lump which may once more be seen under a magnifying glass...