The Big Broadcast will guide readers in their search for an inside look at a radio that helped to shape the lives and the attitudes of the American people through the Twenties, the Depression, World War II and beyond. It is a compilation of information about the "golden age" of radio programs when Fibber McGee and Molly, The Shadow, and Information, Please were on the weekly listening schedule of American families. The A to Z listings include hundreds of radio programs from The A&amp;P Gypsies to Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Each entry includes cast lists, writers, theme music, openings and closings and descriptions of the programs and their chronology. There are narrative descriptions of such subjects as "Announcers," "Bid Band Remotes," "Soap Operas," and "Quiz Shows." Includes a comprehensive bibiliography and index.

Big Broadcast 1920-1950

Humor & Entertainment

Owen, Bill

Buxton, Frank

Radio

Avon/Books

Based on fact, the story tells of a strike by the girls in a match factory in 1888, when unions were still groping for recognition and mass withdrawal of labour was an almost unheard-of strategy in industrial relations. The match-cutters finally rebel against working conditions in which young girls had their jaws rotted away by phosphorus, and discipline was maintained by a system of crippling fines and sanctions. A grim episode, perhaps, but not many minutes of the play are allowed to pass before the natural ebullience of the traditional Cockney sparrow helps to create sparkling entertainment which warms the heart, yet retains the essential drama of the central theme. The incongruously named "Hope Court" is the setting for much of the play, for it is there the workers live in shabby tenements. Desperation turns Kate, the tenement girl, into a reckless strike-leader, and complicates her courtship with Joe, a docker. Annie Besant, the liberal reformer, champions the strikers' cause and plays a vital part in bringing about their ultimate victory over what was then a callous management.

The Matchgirls

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

Devotionally yours, Philippians

Broadman Press

The Big Broadcast 1920-1950

Scarecrow Press

Summer Wine and Vintage Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Robson Books Ltd.

Fundamentals of Distillery Practice

This book represents an effort to present a practical discussion of the fundamentals of distillery practice. It was written specifically for use in the educational program of the production division of Seagram Distillers Corporation, but it is felt that it will be useful in other plants producing grain alcohol. The scope of the discussion is limited to a fundamental explanation of the physical and chemical processes involved in the operation of a grain alcohol distillery. It is not a complete treatise on the subject and does not list in detail specific operating procedures. The discussions, however, are of a fundamental nature and the principles may be applied to the unit operations in any grain alcohol distillery.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Willkie, Herman F.

Prochaska, Joseph A.

Beverages & Wine

White Mule Press

Reprinting the classic adventure from Judges Guild An adventure in the wilderness stronghold of a band of brigands that includes the background and statistics of an evil local deity, plus history, maps, and keyed room descriptions of a five-level dungeon carved out of the side of a mountain. The first three levels are fairly easy and suitable for breaking in new and inexperienced players; but the lower two are far tougher, and include a cavern that has a series of four dragon dens, indicative of the difficulty of the lower levels.

Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor: A Judges Guild Classic Reprint

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Urasawa, Naoki

Conley, Robert

Bledsaw, Bob

Summerlott, Marc

Petrowsky, Mike

Fogel, Craig

Floren, Tony

Fantasy

Goodman Games

At a time when there is very little entertainment except for an occasional barn dance or a shopping trip to Pontotoc or Toccopola, the Baptist Church is the big show, and the Reverend James Robert Williams is the star. After a successful spring revival in 1914 in which sixty-four souls are brought into the fold, the handsome silver-tongued preacher falls from grace into the open arms of the lovely Elvira. The preacher finds himself faced with two choices: duty, honor, and respectability on the one hand, and on the other, Simon-pure love blended and harmonized with the steamy passion of carnal lust. The constable, Little Joe, who pursues the couple, was actually the author's grandfather.

For Love of Elvira: A fall from Grace

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

AuthorHouse

A huge 64-page tome provides tables for random generation of olden names, nicknames, titles, town, and tavern names for fantasy and science fiction stories and role-playing games. The English Language and its antecedents such as Celtic, Teutonic, Scandinavian, Latin, and Greek tongues have all been used as sources so that name meanings would be on the fringes of the familiar and exotic simultaneously. A good name will establish a character's personality or an inn or village's atmosphere and history; it encourages a credible rapport and reminds players that all of the characters have a strong self-interest and identity in the game or story. Over 320,000 possible name combinations!

Treasury of Archaic Names

QLI/RPGRealms

Summer Wine, Vintage Years: A Cluttered Life, Memoirs of an Actor

Arts & Literature

Thomas T. Beeler

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