Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1 British crime fictioneer, to write: "I have been out-Wallaced by recent factual happenings in the United States...
...batch of letters are all the familiar specimens of newspaper correspondence; there are the Legion boys themselves who start off with the customary cracks at the "deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
...being driven almost crazy!" cried distracted Tourist Manager John W. Brunk. "They rush in here, they telephone, they write letters and send telegrams. All they want is a chance to fight, they don't care on which side. They don't even know which side is which...
...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...Author. A. M. Frey had published his first book when the War came, swept him into four years' service with a Bavarian medical unit up and down the Western Front. Afterwards he broke down. When he started to write again he gave the War a wide margin. The Cross Bearers, his first book to be translated into English, is also the first book in which he remembers...