Word: zane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
Public violence flourishes in Mer Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
Harold Bell Wright, Zane Grey, whose works from savagery defend...
WANDERER OF THE WASTE LAND? Zane Grey?Harper ($2.00). Mr. Grey thinks this his "most mature and finished work." It is another tale of gunplay and men who are unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...
...scene was worthy of Zane Grey or the author of "Gunsight Pass"; thousands driven down into the subways for safety, fences broken down and traffic held up in every direction, and all twelve of the Cambridge police force functioning as cowboys, armed with lassoes and lying in wait behind mail-boxes...