Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story around the country, only one thing marred his pride: a woman reader telephoned to thank him because her husband had refused to believe her when she told him several weeks before about the B-36's new tricks. How she knew: a customer in the liquor store where she worked had told her all about...
Palestinian Prison. Business on both sides of this divided city is almost dead. The proprietor of Bulos' souvenir shop just inside Jaffa Gate in the Arab section surveyed his empty store and the empty street leading to the gate where Arab Legionnaires, checked kaffiyehs on their heads, blocked the way. "Before the war," he said, "at this time of the morning the street would be jammed with tourists from the King David Hotel. By Sunday night the counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store...
...section that Haynes prefers to call "drug-store novels" was put in the"inferno" for quite a different reason. Several Years ago, when these cheaply-bound, cheaply-written books dotted the Library's modern literature sections, officials discovered that the strong attraction of the novels detracted from the efficiency of some librarians. Haynes himself usually assigns these works and others, most of which may be considered obscene, to the "Inferno...
...Widener "drug-store novels" differ a great deal from the present "breast-sellers" offered in pocket-book form on bookstands today. They are almost always bound with a brightly-colored cover, and are printed on coarse, cheap paper. While the more recent drugstore favorites feature ill-clad or unclad women, the Widener volumes make an appeal via racy titles...
Haynes breaks down the collection of erotica into several classifications. In the fiction division, three levels exist. On the first is the Lawrence novel, Miller's endeavors rank in the second class, while on the third level are the so-called "drug-store novels...