Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Money," is the adventurous tale of two blonde process-servers who are confident that any man can be made--to accept a summons. The difficulties they encounter in slapping subpoenas on such men as Butch Gonzales, Phil Logan, and Man Mountain Dean are as nothing compared to the complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind...
They would accomplish great things, these Freshmen. In Thayer, in Wigglesworth, at the Union they are telling one another what can be done. Father did it; yes, and he's here to tell the tale. Well, take Emerson, or James or even Waiter Lippmann; say, there's President Roosevelt himself--they've done it. We can do it. Yes, work--but you can't stop a man who wants a thing badly enough. And there'll be time to spare: for the theatre, for opera, for Brattles, for football yes, and Wellesley too. A man must be well-rounded. Opportunity...
...Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie's career, it does outline the problem in a manner...
When Editor O'Brien began his work, Sherwood Anderson was almost unknown and Fanny Hurst got into an early collection with an ecstatic little tale about Russian refugees who found New York a haven from Tsarist oppression. Struggling against the limitations imposed on authors by the conventions of popular magazine fiction, Editor O'Brien called attention to the work that was then appearing in little literary magazines, boldly declared that the best short stories were being written by writers that few people had ever heard of. He reprinted the early work of Waldo Frank and Ruth Suckow, seemed...
Thrifty Freshmen should learn from this sad tale that the CRIMSON is not a luxury but a necessity...