Word: serially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marquand's writing puts the ideas of T. S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock into the language of a Saturday Evening Post serial. Years of entertaining readers of The Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, etc., brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...
...took a trip out west the other night and pulled a job on the Seattle College Library, reversing 24,000 books with lightning-like speed and completely baffling authorities who discovered the mischief next morning. Workers spent most of next day turning the volumes around and rearranging them in serial order...
...near Tripoli, 600 miles farther west. From Tripoli to Bengasi was too long a haul over the desert either for reinforcement to come up by land or for Marshal Graziani to try to run for it. The main British worry was whether they could wipe Bengasi out before German serial assistance should become really effective. The presence of German planes in Sicily and Libya had effected the whole Mediterranean situation. Late in the week German planes bombed the entire British-held section of the North-Libyan cost, claiming a 10,000-ton ship at Bardia, three other sunk and three...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
Professor Same H. Cross '13, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, asserted that "it is our duty so to conduct ourselves by rendering unlimited assistance in aircraft munitions and tonnage-yes, and even in naval and serial manpower if we must, that we help vitally in destroying the Nazi menace...