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Awarded to Pulitzer Prize Novelist Caroline Miller for her first & only book, Lamb in His Bosom, was France's Prix Femina for U. S. authors. Mrs. Miller will receive no cash prize but a free translation of her novel into French...
...years after the War Captain Nicholas Coventry with his little daughter Lizzie knocks about the continent living on his wits. At the end of his rope, down & out, he decides to retire to the bosom of his family, peacefully dwelling in a London suburb. The family consists of solid citizens, wives, husbands, children, to whom the clever, worldlv-wise Nicholas is an adventure. Nicholas soon discovers that there are good pickings. Brother-in-law Charles, devoted husband and father, is an easy mark for Nicholas' charm. The Black Sheep finds it convenient to help himself to money and valuable articles...
...newspapers and magazines this week to publicize the new designs. The trends of fashions as Altman and other stores studied them last week: There are three predominant silhouets ?medieval, crinoline, Empire. Empire features long toe-length skirts and extremely high waists to emphasize the curve of the bosom. The crinoline type, adorned with bows and puffs, has a hoopskirt effect. The ecclesiastic medieval silhouet, which fashion experts predict will be the most popular, emphasizes slim waists, full sweeping skirts, and necklines either demurely high or wickedly low. But since it is impossible to look ecclesiastical in feathery chiffon materials...
Here at the Plymouth this week we have one of those problem plays that take place in the bosom of a family none too pleasant to start with, and which before the curtain has dropped has suffered one seduction involving two marriages and a suicide, not to mention a few minor unpleasantnesses...
...which he was puryeyor and of which he was frequently (it was an easy trick once he learned it) instigator. The American that gladdened his heart was Hiram Maxim, whose new machine gun was incomparably the best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that...