Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down when Queningford was at its dullest. He devolved his parish work on Miss Lambert. Jackman left him. He promoted Cartwright away. Then he married Molly Beauchamp, a rich widow, and was able to leave for good. But though everything appeared to be successful, though he himself was content, he brought failure to everybody else. It is an ironic book, not very exciting, ably done...
...CONQUEROR PASSES?Larry Barr- etto?Little, Brown ($2.00). Stephen Wicker, ex-ambulance driver, is engaged to Annice Reed. The War has left him too restless to be content with his old job. He takes it, but is unhappy, unable to settle down. Then Annice breaks the engagement and there is no need for him to. So he loses his job in despair and starts merrily to the dogs. When he has practically reached them he is rescued 'from freezing to death by Minna Geiger. She falls in love with him, but he realizes that they will never be happy together...
...Paul is leading the Western Division, so that steel should flash in much fast work tonight. Manager George V. Brown has scheduled the double-header for 8.15 o'clock, but Harvard will have to forego its customary first chance at the ice and be content with the second half of the draw, as the St. Paul and Hockey Club players will be the first to answer the whistle...
...there is something strangely absent! There is a content with dreary poetical effects which, I hesitate to say, seem sloppy when coming from a man of such great potentiality. At 14 I worshiped Mr. MacKaye. He was the modern drama to me; and if I cry out against an early hero, it is only because he seems to me to be too consciously striving for an effect, really to allow himself his own greatness...
...Register has the same outward form and general plan as the 1922-1923 book. It is dignified in appearance, handy in size, and extraordinarily complete in content. The material is well arranged and systematically indexed so that the desired bit of information may be the more easily found. The printing is clear and pleasing, the illustrations good, and the map helpful...