Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle. But, in spite of evil machinations, virtue triumphs at last...
...duel over Syria. Ismet Pasha, a small shrewd-looking man, with a smile and courtly manners, and a reputation for diplomatic skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck...
...success, combining all the gifts of a modern chemist with those of a William Jennings Bryan. He is an orator par excellence, but he goes back to his chemical experiments at the end, as by far the less dangerous of the two. And he gets a wife into the bargain...
...scene on the eventful night of the election resembled nothing so much as a good old London bargain sale. In swaying, hysterical lines the remnants of their tempers until nerves sustained by peppermints and Pomeranians could stand it no longer. The line cracked and broke and in a few seconds the splendid hall seethed like hell's own kitchen. The few police were power-less-what could mere men do? More were hurried to the spot without effect, until finally firemen were appealed to to quiet burning Scotland, and with a double cordon of the sterner sex-firmly established...
...amiss to pause in the midst of all the chatter about bargain and sale books to mention some of the new titles just given to the world. First and foremost comes "Mirrors of Moscow", a cry from the wilderness by Louise Bryant. It will well repay the pleasure of reading and will give an adequate picture of the chief figures of Moscow, which city is at present, Russia itself...