Word: croome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CROOM BEATTY...
Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...
...More River (Universal) investigates the domestic affairs of the Corvens?Sir Gerald (Colin Clive) who beats his wife with a riding crop; Lady Clare (Diana Wynyard) who leaves him in Ceylon?and young Tony Croom (Frank Lawton), who meets Lady Clare on the boat to London and falls violently in love with her. In London, Lady Clare and Tony Croom enjoy each other's company ecstatically but not improperly. Nonetheless, when Sir Gerald sets a detective on their trail, he finds them dozing together in an old Ford roadster. The result is an action for divorce which makes...
...with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns her to take the consequences. The consequences are that she is shadowed, discovered in more than one compromising situation with young Tony...