Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lumberton, N. C., "Bing" Frank Wishart thus announced his candidacy for sheriff of Robeson County: "I hereby announce myself for sheriff of Robeson County, subject to the Democratic primary in June. My platform will...
...flight from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. Previous "record" of 48 hr., set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time. Young Goldsborough...
...KING MOB-Frank K. Notch-Harcourt, Brace...
...books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers...
Worcester Academy ended Andover's nine year supremacy in schoolboy track to amass a total of 51 1-2 points and win the Class A championship in the 45th Annual Harvard Interscholastic Track Meet held in the Stadium Saturday afternoon. Jack Healey and Frank Gleason of Worcester were the individual stars of the meet and won the title for their school collecting 25 points of their team's total score...