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Word: townend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation of a British and a German sea captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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