Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of...
THE FAMILY-Frangois Mauriac- translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici-Friede ($2). Not all French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France...
Other social customs observed by Dr. Powdermaker: a husband is forbidden to speak to his mother-in-law, mention her in public, enter a room which she occupies. Having no conception of time the New Irishmen's night life is governed solely by the moon. On bright nights they carouse...
When Peter learns that the uncle has spread lying tales about his parents, he kills the uncle, is tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Later the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. The long years in prison are made livable by the dreams in which Mimsey visits him. One night she...