Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...about Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. The hint can be disregarded. The drama begins as an acid study of the relations between a jaded, unsavory novelist (George Coulouris) and his wife, part journalist, part demon, played by sinister Gale Sondergaard, whose performances here and in the cinema (The Letter) mark her as the female viper of the dramatic year...
Including FHA houses, private construction gained faster than public. This month it ran 300% ahead of 1939. For the year, construction of new factories was double 1939's. Some of this was Governmentinstigated and -underwritten. But heavy construction, public and private, crossed the $4 billion mark for the first time in U. S. history. If residential building continues upward, 1941 may be a record year...
...MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION-Edited by Bernard DeVoto-Harper...
...Before she died last year, Dr. Hollingworth decided that she had rated genius too cheaply, raised the passing mark from...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...