Word: ands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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On the stage of Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre which a few weeks ago held pop-eyed Eddie Cantor and the spangled chorus girls of Whoopee, stood portly President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. A play was about to begin; he asked the audience to remain seated after...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded...
MANY WATERS?Tender pictures of youth and pain, age and sorrow.
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he...
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even...