Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brunonia, though, is so strong this year that it definitely ranks among the best Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League teams. Just why it has never joined the League is not clear, but this season the Bruins should rank after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in Eastern swimming ratings. The order named above is this column's very much biased prediction of the 1939 tank struggles...
...unresponsive." His happy memories are really a tribute to the optimistic spirit of upper-class Englishmen's pre-War world. That spirit Siegfried Sassoon conveys exactly. Defending it, The Old Century is his testament that the worst that can happen in peace is idyllic compared to the best that can happen...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
Rafael Sabatini's 34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood). As dramatic as Italian opera without music, it is as ornately composed as Italian pastry. Laid in the 16th Century, it concerns one Prospero Adorno, wide-browed, slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main...
...good corpses, Zane Grey's 36th novel, Knights of the Range (Harper, $2), tells how beautiful 20-year-old Holly Ripple took over her father's New Mexico cattle empire, reformed a tough bunch of desperadoes, who killed off every rustler in sight. Zane Grey at his best, it is a reminder that probably no other U. S. writer is treated with such indulgence year after year. Zane Grey readers may grow up, but they seldom get away...