Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE WASHINGTON : THE IMAGE AND THE MAN-W. E. Woodward-Boni & Liveright...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully-A. & C. Boni ($2). You have seen him hauling trunks, tending bar, laying bricks, coupling freight cars, lifting circus weights, fighting in alleys; sporting diamonds, bawling from a political platform, pawing pretty girls, bouncing drunks from a night club. He is a redheaded Irishman with a chest like an oak, rumpled red hair, cracked knuckles, a throat for pints of whiskey, ears for the rumble of life. His eyes are humorous, quick, lonely. He was born in a slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding...
...flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...
CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). An English girl "rescued" from her Spanish stepmother...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA-Charles M. Doughty-Boni & Liveright ($10). A whole civilization thoroughly experienced...