Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael and Mary. A. A. Milne is an inveterate romancer and everything he writes he invests with storybook sweetnesses which delight some people, make others feel bilious. The intrusion of severe ethical concerns into Mr. Milne's pink and downy world would be as incongruous as the speculations of Kant in the mouth of a Fauntleroy. Yet that is what occurs in his newest play...
...CRIMSON CIRCLE-Edgar Wallace -Doubleday, Doran ($2). Only Heaven and his publishers know how many literary offspring have been produced by the prolific pen of Author Edgar Wallace; it is said that he has lost count. Here is another one to confuse his reckoning and to delight Wallace fans, detective story addicts. The Crimson Circle, a highly efficient criminal organization, piles murder on mysterious murder until all London is terrorized. Scotland Yard, as usual, gets it in the neck, but this time gives as good as it gets. Author Wallace strews his text with clues, but he is also...
...those who delight in pouring paradimethyl aminoazo benzene into metadiaminodiphenol sulphonic acid, and watching it turn pink, this course is ideal. If you prefer sky blue add a little trinitro-toluene instead...
...Power of the Cross) is the favorite song of all Welsh revivals. The Singing Secretary of Labor sang in Welsh for two reasons: i) The song had never been translated into English; 2) at Sharon, Pa., before his radio set sat David James Davis, 80, harkening with vast delight to his son's cheerful voice. And before their radio sets throughout the land sat many other Welshmen. Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Davis announced: "Apparently most of the two million Welshmen in the U. S. heard me and every mother's son of 'em sent...
...savages or can picture them chasing through the dark underbrush after an animal that they hoped to broil over their fires that evening for dinner. Then, in the protection of the cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit...