Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demand. The King and Queen visited Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, her husband, at Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire en route for Balmoral, the King's private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal state (TIME, Aug. 10), received a present of 100 brace...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, having won the women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis championships of France (TIME, June 15), put away her brace of rackets, adventured on the golf course of the St. Cloud Country Club, turned in a 93* which won her second prize in a tournament organized by a sporting journal...
...BRIGHAM YOUNG-M. R. Werner-Harcourt, Brace...
PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more...
...ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis - Harcourt. Brace...