Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the State of Delaware there are two clans which are really potent. They fight occasionally, but usually they divide the political machinery of the state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty...
The Gargantuan bell was imported from Loughdowrough, England. It is made of bronze and bears the inscription. "In memory of the voices that are hushed," a large Harvard seal, and the year 1926. Designed with the end in view of reaching the Business School as well as the college, the...
THE TIME OF MAN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts - Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon...
Into this obvious melodrama have been woven some sharp moments of suspense. The second and the third acts have many moments in which the edge of the seat is necessary. But the dialog is fearful. It is full of the "Then you have been his woman" type of line and...
"Consult Mr. Marcus Faithful." Then, as an immaculately tailored magnifico, he accords exceedingly confidential interviews to hundreds of expectant London ladies, relieving them of maternal anxieties and fat fees. A fallen gentleman, Mr. Still, is his able secretary. A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it...