Word: briton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike...
...WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD - H. G. Wells - Doran (2 vols. $5). An intelligent 20th Century Briton recapitulates frankly...
Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
Many a British editor hailed the dole last week as the one factor which has kept Briton from social revolution during the present trying strike period...
...everyone knows, was half-brother to General von Bissing, notorious German Military Governor-General of Belgium during a part of the World War. Though Baron von Bissing was a naturalized Englishman and professed detestation for General von Bissing's tyranny over Belgium, he was suspected by many a Briton of being "German at the core," and was interned during the World War. How unjustified were these suspicions was revealed last week when a certain clause in his will revealed...