Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write so furiously that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest one-volume novels (some 700 pages apiece) ever written -twin parts of a total autobiographical recall. First part was The Web and the Rock (1939). Second part was You Can't Go Home Again, published this week...
...operation of sleeping cars; 2) charged railroads and the public unreasonably high rates for sleeping car service; 3) forced railroads to pay unreasonably high prices for rolling stock; 4) prevented the roads from using lightweight, streamlined equipment made by competitors. Caught in the suit's 80-page web were Pullman Directors J. P. Morgan, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Richard K. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., George Whitney, others-as potent a list of defendants as ever graced a civil action. (Since the Government, through reports filed with ICC, has long been aware of the practices to which it is objecting...
...that might remove the fireless acting is unfortunate, but the result is a drawnout tale of unhappy lives and unhappy children. It is relieved only in the warm and heart-felt showing by Henry Hull and Laraine Day as father-and-daughter friends of the family sucked into the web of filial and matrimonial complications. Continuity of effect and depth of performance are not conspicuous by their presence in the picture...
Petrow, of Webster City, Iowa, and Kirkland House graduated from Web...
...that it was Mr. Benjamin Bowker's, who has worked for Mr. Wolff for years. In fact, the grapevine has been humming of a prospective suit for months. Yet Mr. Wolff has it all figured out that he is a poor helpless fly entangled in a spider's web, and that his decision to sue is an act of martyrdom. Actually, none of his points in support of this view holds water...