Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MAGIC ISLAND-W. B. Seabrook- Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). ". . . in the red light of torches which made the moon turn pale, leaping, screaming, writhing black bodies, blood-maddened, sex-maddened, god-maddened, drunken, whirled and danced their dark saturnalia, heads thrown weirdly back as if their necks were broken, white teeth and eyeballs gleaming, while couples seizing one another from time to time fled from the circle, as if pursued by furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself...
ELIZABETH AND ESSEX, A Tragic History-Lytton Strachey-Harcourt Brace...
Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...
MOSES-Louis Untermeyer-Harcourt Brace...
...VICAR'S DAUGHTER?E. H. Young ?Harcourt Brace...