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DIANA-CHRISTINE, 44 Brattle Street, features these unusual ceramics. Rings are $4.50, earrings, $5.00 a pair, and cuff links, $3.00 a pair...
...youth (which lasted for a good many years), Manhattan-born Jo was a true-blue Bohemian expatriate. He lived on the cuff in Paris, plunged into new "movements" like a spaniel into water. He thought nothing of walking from Paris to Lucerne with Leaves of Grass and a Great Dane. He joined the Paris circle of Gertrude Stein ("There was an eternal quality about her"), and later portrayed her as a modern Buddha; in return, Gertrude made "a portrait of me in prose. When she read it aloud, I thought it was wonderful . . . But when I tried to read...
...Jackson County judge (i.e., county commissioner) and making a name for himself for administration. "The President loved those picnics, never missed one," Bill Boyle recalled much later. The kids always hoped Judge Truman would be moved to make one of his "Lonejack orations," the belligerent, off-the-cuff speeches that still serve him best at election time...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
Johnson just can't help acting like a big shot. What he imagines, he believes, and his imagination works overtime. His parties are the biggest in the town of Fada, with plenty of gin and beer bought on the cuff, and clearly audible at two miles. He boasts about his imagined friendship with the British District Officer, and is delighted to hear that that dignitary's wife is coming from England to join him. Johnson has no idea what the woman looks like, but he has no trouble, on that account, describing her to Bamu: "Her cheeks...