Word: zane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children who read about the three funny little pigs are often those who grow up to be readers of G. A. Henty and Zane Grey." Only a cretin, she implied, could get literary satisfaction out of The Little Red Hen or the senseless animism of Peter Rabbit. She offered as an example of what would be more suitable, a story about a child named Peter who "ate 'n ate 'n ate spinach and loved and loved to drink his milk every day until he was strong enough to lift his little horse Trott Trott high over his head...
McCall's, edited by Otis L. Wiese, 23, gives advice on how to raise children, set table, cook meals, keep the house neat, the cellar clean. Its fiction is Zane Greyish, its articles "nicely" written. Aimed at the "model" housewife or Girl Scout, it contains no cigaret advertisements, no suggestive matter...
Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark...
...Zane Grey is not a Duco finish, Nor is it, fortunately, the finish of the motion picture industry. But there are those who believe one or both of these assertions. The former go to his pictures, the latter quite obviously...
...belong in that class which has seen almost all the Zane Grey pictures it wants to see. None the less there is entertainment in "The Water Hole" and the Technicolor bits of the picture are quite good. Jack Holt and Nancy Carroll are the luminaries and manage to tie up the East with the West...