Word: theys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For this chronicle of wasted crime, Producer-Director Rowland Lee and his Scripter-Brother Robert N. Lee claim they boned through 350 volumes of British history. The picture suggests that they might have achieved the same result with less labor by referring to Charles Dickens' A Child's...
Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland...
The last six weeks roughly marked the peak of the fall book season. In that time appeared about 50 novels, representing the labor of about 50 man years. TIME has reviewed the best seven. The remainder have given employment to hundreds of publishers' minions. They will give diversion to...
Of the few which could be called good second-rate, some had first-rate assets-usually on the side of their entertainment value-but were definitely second-grade when placed alongside the best novels of their kind. They were:
Observing in himself and in hundreds of fellow travelers the same symptoms-"rapid pulse . . . labored breathing, dilated pupils, and a euphoristic tingling"-which characterize "all other major passions, such as love, greed, poetry, and the quintessence of them all, religion," Koeves dignifies travel as a "virus," as "a form of...