Word: brentanos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CYNTHIA CODENTRY?Ernest Pascal?Brentano ($2). The psychological network that entangles Cynthia Codentry and causes her retreat from metropolitan philanderings to the dumb worship of Dirt-Farmer Swedge of Long Island, all unravels to the old copybook line about him who hesitates. In his wisdom and mercy, Author Pascal makes manifest some reasons for Cynthia's hesitations ? unnatural home life with her divorced actor-father; the enervating effect of life among rich school girls; a sophisticated girl's natural fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted...
...Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
...LOVE AFFAIRS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS?A Political History?Martin Hume?Brentano...
IDIOT MAN-Charles Richet- Brentano's ($2). Because he drinks, drugs, smokes, wears earrings, has venereal diseases, tattoos, castrates, circumcises, lets mosquitoes live, fears free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment...
Sirs: I am not an Original Subscriber. Indeed I am no subscriber at all. But I have purchased many a copy of TIME from newsstands-here in the U. S and in France (Brentano's) as well. And I feel that I have a right to be heard, when I have a grievance. I view wlth considerable disfavor the phrase "Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery", occurring in your issue of Sept. 21, page 12, column 3. " With my late husband, I traveled extensively, both in Europe and the East, under the auspices or with the assistance...