Word: riverhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have buried $45,000 of "the queer" along with its engraving plates, the identity of the curiously assorted prisoners was made known...
Intimating that its contents would be entirely different than his recently published "Riverhead," the author explained that because of its great length, the book would probably not be ready for publication until next year...
Hillyer turned from poetry to novel writing last year, and the success of his first book has encouraged him to continue as a novelist. Critics acclaimed "Riverhead" one of the finest novels of the year...
...riverhead in a long conversation with his goldfather an old man who has found a philosophic calm, a true contentment, who reveals to him the diagnosis and cure of his disorder, Paul regains the use of his will. And padding down the river, he amends the situations be left untouched. The current is now with him, both physically and morally, and the going in considerably easier. The camp meeting he breaks up; to the two derelicts of the industrial world he gives a new start in life; and his step-mother, he persuades they could never be happy together...
...Riverhead" is a novel both sensitive and powerful. It has profited by the battles waged by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis for the freedom of literature; and shown that the novel has at last come into its peaceful own. "Riverhead" will probably be read and enjoyed, as the novels of Thackeray and Jane Austin are today, when most of its contemporaries are forgotten