Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross Plains, Texas, Dr. J. Henry McGowen, a dentist, posted a dollar bill, attached by paper clips to a prepaid post card, to the circulation department of Chicago's Radio News for six months' subscription. Few days later the post card was delivered, the money still attached...
...book was finished, turning into a story of an undergraduate's adjustment to life which shows that college has not changed much since the days of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis weakened, handed over one of his best titles for his son's first book: They Still...
...Columbia's most popular professors, he is also credited, through his writings, with an increased attendance in philosophy courses at other colleges as well. As a teacher of philosophy he no longer runs the risk of being called cute. As a philosopher in his own right, he might still tempt some old philosopher...
...like a pickled cherry, out of Philosopher's Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life" in Carnegie Hall and art galleries, writes light topical verse, travels much in Europe, wears thick glasses, has a bad stomach, and in general exhibits...
...copies. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes, published in 1921, when he was 42, sold 558,649 copies in the U. S. alone. Last week their latest novels (Hichens' 36th, Hutchinson's tenth) served chiefly as reminders that these once tremendously popular novelists were still alive. They also served as reminders that best-selling novels, while still frequently inexplicable, now show a big improvement over those of the last generation...