Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...voice shattered the peaceful pattern of the street. Bearded men turned on the sidewalk and ran back; others rushed out from shops. Benjamin Krieger swung wildly with his fist, and the narrow-faced stranger ran. A yelling crowd of 50 people followed him. The stranger ducked into a religious bookshop and his pursuers began calling, "Lynch him. . . let us have...
Cartoonist Lancaster's sprightly, prattling text is as amusing as his drawings. As a whole it is a parody of the fly-blown local guide (revised edition, 1910), which is all that the tourist is sure to find in the average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani...
...ordinarily rises at 6, and an hour later trudges into his book-lined study to write at his big desk or to sit in his big armchair, thinking. Occasionally Neapolitans see him out strolling, passing dilapidated palaces and ancient churches, to his favorite bookshop on the Via Foria for a bout of friendly dickering. But last week Neapolitans were troubled: out of the palazzo had come the news that Philosopher Benedetto Croce was gravely...