Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tugwell Line. Over a national radio hook-up Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell turned the flammenwerjer of his wrath on those who use Drought as an argument against crop reduction...
...Though Guy de Maupassant still has more readers than the late great Anton Chekhov, the Russian's partisans are fiercer than the Frenchman's, still tell all comers that Chekhov is the best short-story writer that ever lived. Admirers either of Maupassant or Chekhov will find echoes of both in these 20 stories and sketches. Though one or two would look well in any wardrobe, most of these Russian shorts are made to hang on a Soviet peg. An "artist in uniform," as Critic Max Eastman calls Author Romanof (TIME, May 14), he usually points a Marxian...
...BRAIN GUY-Benjamin Appel-Knopf...
...large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance those who prefer violent realism...
...once too often, found himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon he was ''the brain guy" for a small gang of robbers. But Bill was no thoughtless criminal and his conscience and his fears died hard. As he got deeper into the meshes of a career in which life and success went ever more narrowly together, his increasing desperation gave him a boldness his brain told...