Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Husselton heed what he reads, Mayor White did not call members of the Allied Social Science Association names. TIME reported that he said the type of visitor attracted by Atlantic City's former press bureau was a "cheapskate...
...organizing type, collected a band of about 20 free spirits, set them to robbing chicken coops and stealing horses and buggies. They lived in a cave at a place called Blue Rock and every night they rolled a great stone across the entrance...
When a big three-motored T. W. A. Fokker crashed in 1931, killing among others Knute Kenneth Rockne, that type of plane was grounded. Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...
...Prodigal Parents, Granville Hicks must have been wondering again. A brief, inconsequential book, more typical of Lewis' choppy short stories than of his novels, The Prodigal Parents is notable only for the stern tone it adopts toward the Communist Party and for its sympathetic portrait of the type of U. S. businessman Lewis has previously satirized. The story revolves around the rebellion of Frederick William Cornplow, a plump, prosperous, middle-aged automobile dealer of Sachem Falls, N. Y., who is a dead ringer for Babbitt...
...book is not, however, the much abused type of literary reminiscences which flood the bookstores with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...