Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...
...this spring's nine until a rheumatic back put him on the shelf almost a month ago, hurled his first full game yesterday afternoon since the Dartmouth encounter on May 12. In six of the innings of yesterday's clash, no Indian succeeded in reaching the initial sack. A brace of hits in both the fourth and eighth frames accounted for the two William and Mary...
...Young '23 up to this time had engaged Howard Whitmore '29, favored to start the first Yale game, on even terms until he was relieved by Wilmot Whitney '16, off whom the undergraduates, aided by an error and two base-on-balls, scored the winning brace of runs...
...first thirteen victims. Her death certificate read Vincent's Angina- Crippled Grace Fryer still sticks to her job. She has worked in a Newark bank ever since leaving the radium company seven years ago; still runs her department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women. Said Dr. Martland: "The deposits can be removed only by cremating the bone and then...
CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND-Blair Niles-Harcourt Brace...