Literary Guidepost review roundups on modern books
James T Farrell’s Studs Lonigan analysis and the state of liberal readers are examined alongside new works on Russia and urban planning. Reviews cover Cressey on modern Russia, Snow on Red Star Over China, Churchill on City planning, Chernowitz on Proust painting, Hackett’s best sellers 1895 1945, and Greenberg Schindall on starting a small store.
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Alice P. Hackett
R. RB. Bowker
Miss Hackett
Saintsbury
Service
Guest
Longfellow
Winston Churchill
Owen Wister
Robert W. Chambers
Upton Sinclair
Rex Beach
Edith Wharton
Ellen Glasgow
the Rosary
Florence Barclay
Harold Bell Wright
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Portes
Wolfe
Steinbeck
Remarque
Saroyan
Fallada
Wilder
Dear Judy Teen Talk Snapshots of Back-to-School Fun
Vivian Brown shares a playful column full of teen chatter about fashion tips post last year, dance craze notes, summer trips, and a suggestive jab at school life. The piece mentions Jeanie's sewing, gloves with sequins, a new Duke Ellington record, jitterbugging, and a trip to Maine by air.
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Judy
Jeanie
Ann
Kathy
Jackie
Maine
American Youth Hostel
Jo Ann
New England
Dorothy Mulholland
Kewanee
Illinois
McCain Critiques Nipponese Braggarts Without Brakes
On a ship off Japan, Vice Admiral John S. McCain argues Nipponese men must face tougher wives. He says American men brag but women push back by saying go to the kitchen. He claims Japanese husbands lack restraint and their inflated view bursts when challenged.
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ADM
McCain
Japan
John S. McCain
New Proverbs Being Made Daily Worldwide Says Dialect Society
WILLA MARTIN AP News features writer reports the American dialect society aims to collect and publish American proverbs for posterity. Led by Kemp Le of Johns Hopkins and Margaret Bryant of Brooklyn College, the project notes proverbs reflect regional histories and evolving language from Washington to Mississippi, with sayings like There are no atheists in foxholes cited as candidates.
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Jerusalem
Saladin
Mme. Kossak
Baldwin IV
Knights
Ibelin
Ramlah
Willa Martin
New York
American Dialect Society
The
Dialect Society
Omey
Kemple
John Hopkins University
Margaret Bryant
Johnson, S. C
Department of
Brooklyn
Bryant
Washington
New England
Oregon
Mississippi
Miss Bryant
ICC Issues Report On Train Accidents
ICC reports railway disasters killed 1,840 and injured 25,173 in five months this year, vs 1,881 deaths and 25,251 injuries last year. Five month totals show 25 killed and 1 injured in train service, with 29 killed and 1,626 injured a year earlier. Most injuries involved on duty workers. some employees were killed at work. The note also mentions New South Wales as Australia’s first colony.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tee
New South Wales
Australia
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