Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Josef Washington Hall (Author-Lecturer Upton Close), expert on Far Eastern affairs; by his second wife, Alice MacFarland Hall; in Phoenix, Ariz. Grounds; cruelty...
Unlike U. S. book reviewers, who rarely write novels, British book reviewers turn novelists almost as naturally as cocoons turn into moths. While this metamorphosis seldom produces a first-rate novel, it does produce, from plain readers' viewpoint, a pleasing bulk of readable fiction. With their ears continually close to readers' hearts, no one learns better than book reviewers that the warmest heart beats are stimulated by a readable story, lively plot, colorful atmosphere, easy prose, a minimum of literary pioneering. Thus informed, British reviewers, with a better average than most, turn out best-sellers as expertly...
...grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw it over the branch of a tree. "I cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...
Behind a high wind, the Freshman division of the Yacht Club dropped a close decision to the dinghy delegations of Dartmouth and M.I.T. The score was Dartmouth 43, Tech 41, and Harvard...
PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania's turbulent primary campaign drew to a close tonight with John L. Lowis' bid for political control of the nation's second largest state the major issue in a bitter race which shattered the Pennsylvania. New Deal front, Licut, Gov. Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mino Workers of America, CIO cradle and source of Lowis' financial strength in last summer's battle against "Little Steel," tonight predicted a 100,000 vote victory margin for his CIO state in Tuesday's primary...