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Depicted was a sophisticated bookshop into which an innocent, pink-cheeked old lady had blundered, on her Christmas shopping. The caption-irresistibly amusing to Britons, but puzzling to many a U. S. citizen-read...
Dear Old lady (to assistant in a bookshop) : "Have you got this Book on Loneliness by Mr. Wells...
...costs $1.25 for a "trial membership". The theatre is at 36 Joy Street, where one enters through a bookshop. During quiet moments of the play you can hear the footsteps and words of people walking down muddy Beacon Hill. Probably it is a synthetic Bohemia, but it will...
...John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes...
...Raditches. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis wrote: "He lived in a simple house in Zagreb and loved to entertain friends there, always offering them paprika sandwiches which made tears start while he talked-so rapidly and incoherently that the mind could hardly follow him. He earned a living by keeping a bookshop...