Word: branch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...innocuous Mr. Rodemich with flow of good humor and bursting jazz of brass was on hand; in fact, he introduced one of those silent tramps as "possibly the most imitative of pantomime artists". There were views of mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely...
TIME meant Morons. A branch of the Moron family, Venezuelans, has lived at St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) some hundred odd years, owns the Country Club field on which Col. Lindbergh landed. They are neither Moros nor morons...
Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...
...were determined to have their own mayor. Names like Stotesbury, Pillsbury, Biddle, Chadbourne, Phipps, Replogle, Heckscher, Seligman, Vanderbilt were attached to mayoral campaign literature for Major Barclay Harding Warburton, handsome society oldster who used to publish the Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and now conducts the Palm Beach branch of E. F. Hutton & Co. (stocks, bonds...