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Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner 1889-1970, American detective-story writer, b. Malden, Mass. He served as a trial lawyer for many years. About 1921 he began writing detective stories for magazines; after that time he produced an extraordinary number of novels and stories noted for their fast action and clever... Read more |
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The Story of Rimini
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1852-1930, American author, b. Randolph, Mass. Her stories and novels paint a picture of Massachusetts and Vermont still under the influence of Puritanism, in her view, a philosophy made rigid by time. Her short story collections include A Humble Romance and Other... Read more |
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Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston 1870-1936, American novelist, b. Buchanan, Va. Her books combine romance with history. She is chiefly remembered for To Have and to Hold (1900), a story of colonial Virginia, and its successor, Audrey (1902). Her other novels include two Civil War stories, The Long Roll (1911)... Read more |
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William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) Source S CULPTOR Legal Profession.As the son of a respected Supreme Court justice, William Wetmore Story appeared to be headed toward a distinguished career in law. But he became sidetracked from that profession... Read more |
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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner), 1885-1933, American humorist and short-story writer, b. Niles, Mich. He was a sports reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, and Boston from 1907 to 1919. His first collection of short stories, You Know Me, Al (1916) revealed his talent for the racy sports idiom he... Read more |
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Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting 1886-1947, American writer of juvenile stories, b. Maidenhead, England. He settled in the United States in 1912. His famous "Dr. Dolittle" stories, which concern an extraordinary country doctor with a great love of animals, began as letters to his children during World War I. They... Read more |
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts 1886-1941, American poet and novelist, b. Perryville, Ky., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1921. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she carefully represented. All her work is distinguished by the beauty and rhythm... Read more |
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short story
short story brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the... Read more |
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National Rifle Association
...emphasized massed rifle fire, downplaying marksmanship...Trefethen , comp., Americans and Their Guns: The National Rifle Association Story through Nearly a Century...Osha Gray Davidson , Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle... |
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American Claimant, The
American Claimant, The, story by S.L. Clemens, written under his pseudonym Mark Twain and...just trial of the rights of American claimants to his father's earldom...believed to have died in a hotel fire, disguises himself to seek... |
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salvage
...from shipwreck or fire, a process in which...recover a fortune from under the sea.In the late 17th century an American-born Englishman...Lifting ropes were run under its hull and the...removal measures under way in the early...began a golden ... |
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First World War
...rise to a series of atrocity stories—enough of which were...invented tanks. Artillery barrage fire, brought to new heights of concentration...field by an Anglo-French army under a French C-in-C, Foch, with the prospect of unlimited American reinforcements to ... |
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Her Majestys Theatre
...Vanbrugh, it opened in 1705 under the management of William Congreve...honour of George I. After a fire in 1789 a new theatre devoted...inaugurated a successful series of American productions which included John...Wagon (1953) and West Side Story (1958). The ... |
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Mormonism
...church from other forms of American Christianity. But further...reorganized” the church under Joseph Smith III's...freedom, this indigenous American religion obliged the...Shipps , Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition...Brooke , The Refiner's ... |
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Hearts still touched with fire ; Stories of men who served in a Mass....
...Gettysburg and was crushed under his horse in the...the war have family stories of their exploits...artillery opened fire. In Washington, D.C., the African American Civil War Museum...had heard family stories about his great...the Union ... |
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Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption.(Review)
...Casualties for African Americans ran as high as 23...benefit" all Americans not otherwise able...unexamined by its African American participants, with...memoir Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption...focus. Patches of ... |
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The Rise And Fall OftheKKK;`Cross of Fire's' Story of the Man Under the Sheet
...dragon. Stephenson's story, and the rise and fall...subject of "Cross of Fire," a two-night, four...viewers, "Cross of Fire" will be a journey of...which is a chronicle of American history between the wars...appeared to be an important ... |
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Fire at 60-Story Chase Building in N.Y. Injures Six.(Brief Article)
...contend with. A fire that apparently started...generator atop its 60-story office tower in the...from the top two stories, including the executive...the New York City Fire Department. Two...fire was brought under control by ... |
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Troy fire at 3-story duplex ruled accidental.(Capital Region)
...A Tuesday night fire that left six people...Wednesday. The three-story duplex at the corner...avenues caught fire shortly before 10 p.m., the fire department said...official cause remains under investigation...chapter of the ... |
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The Military: Faith Under Fire.(Cover story)
...caliber machine-gun fire erupted in the distance...war." He is "on fire for God." But the...ways, Benimoff's story is common to people...beliefs. It is the story of spiritual struggle...shalt not kill, but under certain ... |
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Women in the Line of Fire.('War Torn: Stories of War From the Women Reporters...
...into the line of fire. "I don't believe...In "War Torn: Stories of War From the Women...encounters with the American and Vietnamese victims...Lithuanian-born American freelancer, believed...piece of shrapnel under the skin of my ... |
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In the line of fire -- a story of Cote, mercenaries
...things for an ungrateful American government. The reporter...of this disturbing story. Many American reporters have spent...them up if they come under attack. Private security...largest abduction of Americans since the war began -- remains ... |
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DeNucci returns fire over stories on his work habits
...and slurred my heritage and everyone in the Italian-American community," DeNucci said. Andrew Gully, the Herald...Manning, meanwhile, said it was more DeNucci's reaction under fire, rather than what the series revealed, that was perturbing... |
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A Heroic Life; Pat Tillman turned his back on fortune and football fame to...
...Tillman would climb the 10-story light tower at Sun Devil Stadium...and potential. More than 800 American men and women have now died...thousands have been wounded. American troops tend to be honorable...good looks. An academic All-American, he had a 3.84 ... |
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