Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...smouldering blaze led firemen on a merry 30-minute chase up and down stairs at 12:20 this morning before it was located and put out in the basements of Hazen's Restaurant and the Personal Bookshop. Total damage was estimated...
...walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than I could chew...
Dream Girl (Paramount) was a highly successful stage comedy that Elmer Rice wrote for his talented wife, Betty Field. It is about a working girl who runs an unsuccessful bookshop and has a crush on her brother-in-law. She escapes from these annoying realities in a series of glamorous daydreams-until love of a rude young book reviewer brings her back to earth...
...mother (he was the only child) divorced her husband, had a nervous breakdown, became an ardent Christian Scientist, exhausted herself working in an antique shop, tried unsuccessfully to compel her son to go to college. His friends were the few emancipated spirits who congregated around Herbert Fletcher's bookshop in Akron, and later the New York and expatriate intellectuals who contributed to the little magazines...