Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks...
...Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...
...having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization of lives and literature which, for most people, lie moldering in the rat-runs of deserted lecture halls. Its 575 pages are more simple, vivid and downright readable than the average run of best-seller fiction, not excepting the direct quotations from philosophic works, which are invariably well chosen to promote clarity and to demonstrate flavors. As a textbook for classrooms it has obvious shortcomings - the jump from Aristotle to Bacon; the skimming of Descartes and Hume. But it is something of a service...
...Miss Hall, according to the Boston Herald, has finally been discovered or allowed herself to be discovered, as the writer of "The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in 1764-65" that has beeen buzzing about as a best seller in the literary world since its publication last year. A great many people suspected that the document was not entirely authentic; but, on the other hand, a great many wiseacres, particularly in England, welcomed it as a spirited contemporary portrait of our delightfully lewd ancestors. It is now time for all those who suspected a take to be gently...
Engaged. Miss Sylvia Thompson, 23, English author of a recent U S best seller, The Hounds of Spring (TIME, March 1, BOOKS); to one Peter Luling, Eton-Oxford raised Manhattanite...