Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Room' or 'Getting Gertie's Garter'. And along with this has followed the degradation of maidenly modesty. Evolution is a philosophy of the flesh. The modern drama is an exaltation of the flesh and the glorification of the brute. Magazines today are simply dripping with sensualism. The best seller of today compares most unfavorably with the best seller of 50 years...
...fostered by the attempt to limit the liberty and pursuit of happiness of our people. At present the law considers as criminal, acts which the consciences of many citizens find harmless or approve. The present law, apparently by design, discriminates between the rich and poor and between the seller and the purchaser of forbidden liquor...
Louis Dorbon, quondam Under Secretary to President Millerand when he was Minister of War, was detained by the U. S. Immigration authorities when he tried to reenter the U. S. M. Dorbon is a well known book-seller and it was suggested that the reason for his detention was the sale in the U. S. of Victor Margueritte's book La Garconne. This, however, was unsubstantiated; the real reason was not given. Said M. Dorbon: "I have crossed from New York to Paris 21 times. Never have I been held up in this way before. It is incomprehensible...
What will be the six or the ten best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing...
...Culture and the Workers in which he declared that taste does not follow class distinctions. He based his argument on the popularity of his " Pocket Series " of books, chiefly reprints of literary classics. Mr. Haldeman-Julius has sold over 30,000,000 of these in three years.* The best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear...