Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteenth Century. Orlando knelt in crimson breeches, offering the Queen a bowl of rose water before she dined. He saw her crabbed sickly hand flash with heavy jewels; she saw his dark curls bent so reverently, and that night deeded him the great monastic manor that had belonged to the...
I am particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which...
SPLENDOR-Ben Ames Williams- Button ($2.50). Quietly and carefully Author Williams tells the story of Henry Beeker, faithful newspaperman. Son of a blacksmith father, Henry enters the employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged...
One Mrs. Adalin Macauley, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, got the surprise of her life, so she said, when Queen Mary of Britain tugged at her sleeve in Buckingham Palace. She, it was assumed, had gone to the Palace with the idea of being-treated with condescension by...
The Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not...