Word: year
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, the National Safety Council-published its annual collection of Odd Accidents of the Year. Oddest...
...Pontotoc, Miss., two-and-a-half-year-old Keith McKnight fell into an empty 54-foot well. When his mother shouted: "Are you down there, Keith?", Keith replied: "Yes, and I'm dirty...
...Marshall, Mo., letters deluged a 52-year-old plumber and minister. His full name: Santa Claus...
Published in the U. S. are one literary annual and one semi-annual of proved vitality. They are New Directions in Prose & Poetry, published by New Directions in Norfolk, Conn., and Twice A Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year in Manhattan. Each is a subsidized enterprise, each is edited by its own patron, and each claims a more independent policy, a purer concern with pure literature, than professional publishing can show. Readers in the autumn of 1939 could look to them for such nonconformist stuff as The Dial...
...October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned Publisher Laughlin. "Let us oppose the principle of destruction with the principle of creation." Readers found a few contributions (notably a peasant tragedy by the late, great Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative...