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Next day President Conant will hob sob will the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and will speak to them on the subject of changes in ideas in relation to organic chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT STARTS ON ANNUAL TOUR WEST | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan sob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...that the Matanuska colonists have had their spuds and fodder snowed under (TIME, Oct. 23, p. 19), we look forward to another epidemic of new sob stories drooling over the hardships for which this region is celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week a jury, all but one of whom were parents, tried Louis Greenfield. Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz staged the defense, free of charge, but his renowned theatrical talents were scarcely needed. Euthanasia defendants are seldom convicted. Father Greenfield's story made the jurors sob. He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Tuesday to autograph copies of his latest book, "Wickford Point," which features a Harvard Housemaster turned novelist. Seated behind an imposing pile of his latest works, Marquand was guarded from a rush of autograph-seekers which failed to materialize, by an efficient lady literary agent and a high-brow sob sister from the Transcript (pronounced Trahnscript) for which he worked in its palmier days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. P. Marquand, Boston Satirist, Found How Culture Feels While at Harvard | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

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