Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The business of ghostwriting, thoroughly discredited, is believed to be on the decline. But the Oelrichs incident (see above) gave wise Heywood Broun, columnist for the 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers, a chance to review some ghostly history:
Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs. Mr. Broun admits he has little sympathy for debutantes who get ghosts to help them confess their insincere boredom. He writes: "Surely in a proper finishing school there must be some course on 'How to bare your soul at fifty cents a word.' "
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken...
Seeker. These sights are interlinked with a perpetual seeking. At first the author senses a mystery; he wishes to know "how it is with human beings." Girls, he decides, are the mystery, for even the complex Ferd, whom he plainly adores, is not. With Hilde he craftily sets about a...
A FAREWELL TO ARMS-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($2.50). This story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, U. S. ambulance officer on the Italian Front, of his campaigns and leaves of absence, of the swarming Caparetto retreat, of the Lieutenant's affair with Catharine Barkley, an English nurse who died in childbirth...