Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come) with woodcuts. Other books: Lady Into...
...three large sheets of parchment Dr. Albert Einstein had written a summary of his relativity theory to date. An anonymous donor bought it, valued at $25,000, presented it to Yale University. The presentation was formal, with Dr. Einstein present, at the Manhattan bookshop run by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, daughter of the late Sportsman-tycoon Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Josephine Dodge Kimball, daughter of Marshall J. Dodge. Dr. Einstein forthwith sailed on the Deutschland for Germany...
During this autobiographical walk around Manhattan one ex-friend after another met Lawrence and offered him friendly help. To cap all, the girl showed him a flourishing bookshop, offered him the job of running it. Then they were mysteriously separated and Lawrence woke up in his room. When he called her apartment he found she had died the day before; but everything else had really happened...
Browsing in an old bookshop, a young litterateur discovers a manuscript book of poems. The authoress, who once lived in the house, comes to haunt him; his publication of the poems nearly leads him into a nasty death...
...theses were adjudged worthy of publication by a committee of the English Department last June and will be on sale at the Coop within the Dunster House Bookshop within a few days...