Word: zane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without a certain sense of the fitness of things. No doubt he owes much to the fact that his earliest reading had been in the classics, Zane Gray, Jane Austin and Octavus Roy Cohen. But the significant fact remains, gentlemen, that no romantic writer of his ilk could have existed west of Worcester without feeling the subtle and pervading influence of the fin desiecle spirit on his whiskey sours. Changing his verse every ten years, and here...
Desert Gold. Zane Grey has contributed another hair-raiser, in which a sand storm is a vast feature. It deals with the dangers surrounding a girl who lived on the edge of a Western desert, and how a brave lieutenant of cavalry (Neil Hamilton) preserved her from them. Western pictures, like Western sandwiches,- are much the same everywhere and good if you like them...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...
...Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...
...down by the gentleman with that volume, and he told me that his favorite stories were those by Sax Rohmer, that he considered Mrs. Rinehart's K the best book he had ever read, that Joseph Conrad was his delight. He didn't like the novels of Zane Grey because they were all so much alike, and he'd never heard of Harold Bell Wright. This last piece of information gave me a start...