Word: selden
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Times Square is the closest subway station to New York's theater district, and it was the home of Tucker Mouse and Chester Cricket in George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square. Bookworms will recall the neighborhood around the public library in Bryant Park across town as the domain of Lucinda Wyman, the heroine of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, who prowled the city a century ago, making friends of cab drivers, patrolmen, fruit vendors, junk dealers and confectioners--defying her class-conscious relatives. A pleasant place to lunch nearby: the Algonquin, onetime hangout of wits and wags Dorothy...
...Sean Pica kills the sexually abusive father of fellow Selden high school student Cheryl Pierson after she hires...