Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dale applied the yardstick. The wife of Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, she writes articles for magazines, recently published a book on Modigliani...
...Story. Author Aldington lets his audience know at once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...
...five or six (original value 65? to 7?). Bidding at the first sale was lively, 40? or 50? a bundle, then fell away to 20?. Magazines sold: Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, Field & Stream, Motion Picture, American, True Story, Detective Story, Red Book, Home Beautiful, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazar, Arts & Decoration...
...sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself. However, he is stupid about it and repulses her advances. This part of the book is also memorable for a typographer's error that gives us the crisp descriptive sentence: "Her hand sank on his shoulder with a low laugh...
...ending of the book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...