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...unpublished work of Gertrude Stein is being printed in limited editions of 1000 copies each. The first volume to be ready is called "Lucy Church Amiably". This is to be followed by "How to Write Series" in two volumes. It is to be hoped that Miss Stein will here explain some of her peculiarities along these lines...
...suspended for insolvency. Although West & Co. was not considered a major firm, it was well-entrenched in Pennsylvania with offices in nine cities. The firm had been interested in several of the same amusement and utility shares whose decline previously embarrassed Pynchon, hence its difficulties were easy to explain...
Just as a theatre manager is about to begin rehearsing a new comedy, an elderly man, his wife and four children (two are illegitimate) appear, beg for a chance to act the drama of their lives. They explain that they are the characters of an author who conceived them but never provided them with a literary vehicle. Accompanied by very little action and a great deal of discussion, the request of the six characters is granted...
...office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost them both. Other books: The Dain Curse, Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon...
...have been inside your Statue of Liberty, and yet I have never been in America. Can you explain that...