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...melancholy event, aches with regret at the taking of a life, albeit an animal's. He resigned to become, as he informed a childhood sweetheart, "Eric the famous writer." His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, was a nonfiction account of several months in the late 1920s spent among hoboes and whores, picking hops and washing dishes. Worried about his parents' reaction to his stark life, he took the pseudonym George Orwell - probably from his hero Victorian novelist George Gissing and from the Orwell, a Suffolk river whose precincts the young nature lover hiked...
After the presentation of the gift, a performer sang the 1920s tune “I’m Just Wild About Harry...
...welcome new ideas. After a decade and a half of many bumps and some tragedies, the process reached a pinnacle when the 2000 presidential election saw the overthrow of the old order. The candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had ruled Mexico without a break since the 1920s, lost to Vicente...
Three undergraduates who have amassed large literary collections—books on old-time radio, major tomes of Western philosophy and a 1920s-era novel series for boys—won a combined total of $2,500 last week for their ability to bring books together...
Kosman’s book collection, “‘To Arlie:’ An Intergenerational Collection of 20th Century Boys’ Books,” was dedicated to her grandfather, who grew up as an orphan in the 1920s and died at 40 years...