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...some readers, Jorgen Thestrup mysteriously disappears, and Madame. Dorthea divides her time between her children, household duties, settling the estate, and flashbacks on her married life. All these domesticities are reported in an abundance which Tolstoy could have made wonderful and which Sigrid Undset's high-grade Dorothy Dix tone of voice makes tedious...
Unitarians could point to a long tradition of outstanding women-such suffragettes and reformers as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Dorothea Dix, Louisa May Alcott. That Dr. Reinhardt capably upheld that tradition, few Unitarians doubted...
Here I Am a Stranger (Richard Greene, Richard Dix, Brenda Joyce, Roland Young; TIME...
...Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David...
Willie was taught to play by his mother, herself a pianist and organist of some local repute, and he attracted his first large audiences when, aged 20, he joined the 350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion...