Word: sinclair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, and plenty of other witnesses (of whom I am one) have asserted and proved that a reasonably well-nourished body will show no pronounced effect from even a ten-day fast, newspapers constantly give harrowing details of emaciation and dissolution after fasts of three and four days...
...Swann Howard, lw. 3/4 lw. 3/4, Lee Whitney, soh. soh., Duffus Mayorga, sh. sh., McPartland White, f. f., Stewart LaRoussilhe, f. f., Cragin Oppenheimer, f. f., Davis Knapp, f. f., Fisher Nazro, f. f., Hogg Aitken, f. f., McAllen Taylor, f. f., Quigley Schwyzer, f. f., Sinclair...
...Port of New York Authority is "unquestionably the most impressive example of successful Socialism in the U. S." I wonder if anyone has ever called your attention to the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the U. S. Postoffice, and the U. S. Public School system? UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
...Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair Lewis, with Main Street...
...finds it worth while. He sees that it wasn't so bad after all and that the search for his stories brought him not regrets but pleasure. To an outsider the work seems excessive, but the candidate finds time for his studies. He will give up the latest movie, Sinclair Lewis' new book, the midnight show at the Old Howard, and the rest of the necessities for a normal, life, because he enjoys the sacrifice...