Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt I "read about everything worth while . . . history, economics and good fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering papers; Roosevelt II "collects old English and French books. He shares my love of books and naturally I think he's a great...
FREE LAND-Rose Wilder Lane-Longmans, Green...
...others, like Rose Wilder Lane's Free Land, look solidly good to begin with, turn out to contain the sort of black specks that are sometimes found inside the best-appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events...
Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...