Word: besse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introspective school. FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What the profit and loss of war and marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...
...would like you to give recognition in your columns to Mrs. Bess M. Wilson of the Minneapolis Journal for her description of the Secretary of Labor, who recently visited the Twin Cities...
Miss BISHOP-Bess Streeter Aldrich-Appleton-Century...
...Commerce, Hunter Wright found one friend. Tillman Anderson, landowner, offered him the use of a small island in the Mississippi. Off to the island went hunters, dogs and the two lions, Nell & Bess...
...celebrate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Concord, Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts went to Schenectady, impersonated an embattled farmer, fired a "shot heard round the world." In a broadcasting studio radio technicians wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...