Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand for!" cried tousle-headed Mayor Kelly. He promised to do his best to get an R. F. C. loan to give city employes their back pay. Next day he issued $1,700,000 worth of tax anticipation warrants, the hackneyed method by which Chicago has been preventing the wolf from coming all the way through its civic door since 1928. With this money he paid Chicago schoolteachers the first week's salary they had had in months...
...like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author of an astounding novel, "Gallows Orchard," and a dozen others are making a literary future for America. The years of experimenting with form are almost at an end, classicism is returning, and simplicity and a straight-forward narrative is found to be the most powerful weapon...
Publishers, like other advertisers, cry "Wolf! Wolf!" to a semi-attentive public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike...
Hunters sometimes eat wolf or fox meat, says Welzl, but dogs can always spot such a man. When he comes to a village "whole packs of dogs shuffle after him and water him: a man like that ought to be pitied." He confesses he is fond of bear's meat himself, says he "often ate a huge pot of bear-stew at one sitting. Sometimes I ate three bears in a month...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...