Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neither suppressed nor underground is British Author Aldous Huxley, now living in Pacific Palisades, Calif. His nearly-completed novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, is scheduled for publication this fall. A realistic fantasy, it tells of a rich man who tries to prolong his life scientifically, eventually reverts toward...
Stagehand Browne was there as a vice president and executive councilman of A. F. of L., sitting with his fellow councilmen and president, William Green, at their summer meeting to review Federation affairs, deal with such inter-union disputes as this. "It is all a headache," said Mr. Green, who enjoyed elbow-rubbing with stars but had a cold and much confusion in the head...
...resign. For several weeks he has refused even to pretend to work. But puppets do not resign; a string is pulled and they disappear. Last week the Northern Wang, jealous of the Southern Wang, whose super-puppet regime would eclipse his, was reported "in retirement" in the gorgeous Summer Palace of the C'hing Emperors...
...that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices" of his predecessor, Commissar Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov...
...cheeked, rotund Joseph C. Lincoln's 30-odd novels all have their quotas of clambakes, oilskins and "characters." "The average summer boarder," says dry-spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers...