Word: garth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary: HARVARD WILLIAMS Dunn, Salmon. g. g., Bowman Robinson, Henderson, c.pt., c.pt., Gardner, Garth Kroel, Amazeen, pt. pt., Collins Pickard, Marshall, 1d. 1d., Ashby Hartnett, Cleary, 2d. 2d., MacIntosh. Heine Park, Faude, 3d; 3d., Reiff Evans, Nido, Farrell, c. c., Siegel, Helmar Glenn, Hobbs, 3a. 3a., Dunn Pope, Gulick, 2a. 2a. L. Brown, Hyde...
...JOHN S. GARTH...
ZERO ? Collinson Owen ? Dodd, Mead ($2). John Garth, a London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life...
...shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through to the prisoners. Hard rock smashed the drill-bits. The mine pump failed. It was 153 hours (six days and a half) before Salem rejoiced and the victims, still alive and astonishingly cheerful, lay in the first aid station...
Last week jaded Gothamites sweated, many publicly collarless, others privately naked. In front of a cell-like apartment house one Garth Anderson, Negro, 23, sat dull-eyed, knowing not, caring less that Miss Josephine Smith, 20, white, likewise exuded many a salty droplet some miles away. Languor fell upon them. They sighed, yawned-screamed with fearful pain until summoned surgeons set their respectively dislocated jaws...