Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The story centres on the relation between whites and natives. In an isolated valley in Tahiti, 16 years before the story opens, a young English widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the...
THEY TALKED OF POISON - March Everymay-Macmillan ($2). At a meeting of a crime seminar in a university near Baltimore a dog dies of strychnine, and the deaths of a parson and his daughter (from different causes) follow. Long-winded but literate.
Reds & Nazis and any other "unAmerican activities" he may find in the land will be the quarry of loud, towering, ham-handed Representative Martin Dies (rhymes with "pies"') of Texas. With him will work six House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin...
¶A fanatical hater of flies. Dose Muffin dies chasing one into a buzzsaw. Ready for burial, Dose jumps up, yells for a flyswatter. When it is brought he lies down again, swats the fly in his coffin, makes no further fuss as the dirt is shoveled over him.
The two things that turn Henry Ormandy into a little imperialist Hamlet are religious neurosis and a lofty recruiting speech by Cecil Rhodes. The foils to Henry's neurosis are women, whom he professes to despise, and South African natives, whom he professes to like. Refusing to touch native...