Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BACK OF THE BOOK-Margaret Leech-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Vergie Stilson was 28 years of age and not unattractive. She pictured herself as "an author of brilliant subtlety,"until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved...
BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE? Sigmund Freud?Boni & Liveright...
GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO?Sigmund Freud? Boni & Liveright...
...scarcely credible, after the great to-do which was made to pass the soldier bonus through the Congress at its last session, that ex-soldiers are now slow in applying for their boni. To be sure, no insurance certificates will be issued until Jan. 1; and no cash payments made until Mar. 1. Nonetheless, with 4,500,000 veterans theoretically standing in line, it would seem that each would be anxious to have his application early on the list. Last week, Major General Robert C. Davis, in charge of the work of the War Department in receiving and checking bonus...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF Louis XV-Mouffle d'Angerville (Translated by H.S.Mengard)-Boni & Liveright ($3.50). Spicy is the adjective which must govern this book. It shows how the people of Paris, tired of the wicked Regency, welcomed the young King with open arms, and how they came to detest him. In the main, it is the story of Louis' amours, piquant, authoritative and amusing. The translation itself has considerable merit...