Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 73-year-old Grand Chief Johnston and 72-year-old David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this...
...Habimah's other Broadway offerings: David's Crown, The Golem, Oedipus...
...prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love with David. How can she gain his favor? That she can never be his wife Chinese custom dictates; that she can ever be his concubine...
Peony has calculated well. After his initial pleasures with Kueilan, David finds her insufficient and turns to Peony for solace. At one point it seems as if the Jewish law is going to be violated. But Peony resists temptation and retires to a convent where she does many good deeds...
WHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED (380 pp.)-David L. Cohn-Houghton Mifflin...