Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knopf ($2). Like the Ancient Mariner, who held his unwilling listener by the power of his glittering eye, the awful compulsion of his tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...
...rises to fly 17 more codes to Manhattan for the President to sign. Oct. Q-Summer boomlet ends. "Buy Now" campaign is rushed into the breach. Oct. 10-With strikes still pocking the nation from coast to coast, General Johnson warns the A. F. of L. convention: "The plain, stark truth is that you cannot tolerate the strike. . . . Public confidence will turn against you!" First crackdown, on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, whose Blue Eagle is recalled. Oct. 12-Weirton Steel strike starts. Oct. 25-Administrator Johnson announces NRA's reorganization into four industrial divisions. A fifth division, compliance...
...Dolly Stark's Big Green five rolled up a high score in defeating the Crimson basketball team by a 54-20 margin in the first Eastern Intercollegiate game Saturday night at Hanover. The Hanoverians flicked the ball into the hoop from all angles and from the middle of the floor with uncanny precision...
Hanover, N. H., Dec. 15--Coach Dolly Stark drilled his charges against Harvard offensive and defensive plays here this afternoon as the Dartmouth basketball team went through its last practice in preparation for the Harvard game...
...Recall Council, made up of taxpayers, real estate dealers, small merchants and a good slice of the local press, directed the fight on Mayor Hoan. Put up to oppose him in the recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...