Word: cornell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN-David Cornel Dejong- Houghton Mifflin...
BELLY FULLA STRAW-David Cornel Dejong-Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...