Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICAN-John V. A. Weaver-Knopf...
...Bullet Has Went." The poetical effusions of the late John V. A. Weaver, husband of Actress Peggy Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...
...Critic Mencken, whose ability to write at a canter while thinking at a trot made him a popular literary spectacle, first published his ambitious philological work, The American Language. Weaver, a young journalist who read it enthusiastically, put it to the proof. He sent Mencken, then editing the Smart Set magazine, a piece entitled Elegie Americaine. Excerpt...
...Bloomington, Ind., Mary Weaver,11, playing hide-and-seek, counted to a hundred by fives, then shouted "Hitler!" This, she explained, meant "Ready or not, here I come...
Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June...