Word: childses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden's Way. Impressed by Marquis W. Childs's Sweden, The Middle Way, President Roosevelt has just dispatched a commission to make a special study of European cooperatives. In Sweden the President's commission will find the world's most efficient cooperative, Kooperativa Förbundet...
EL JIMMY-Herbert Childs-Lippincott ($3).
Six thousand miles due south of Manhattan lies Punta Arenas, largest town in Patagonia, southernmost city in the world. Few tourists find their way there. Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because...
...When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry to say that a man Mrs. Childs had danced the tango with had since been shot...
Harmonious Developer. One of the most unaccountable, unpredictable of modern mystics is George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a Levantine with a huge, shaved head, piercing eyes, walrus mustache and bull-muscled frame. He is the strange head of an odd cult which such people as the late Novelist Katharine Mansfield, the late...