Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he sees that she is more woman than child, Dodd realizes he has always loved her. Because he is married they decide on renunciation. When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack. "She said I was your fancy lady," boasts Tessa with childish innocence as Dodd carries her off happily to a little furnished room in Brussels, where she promptly and pathetically expires in his arms...
COLONEL LAWRENCE: THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND-Liddell Hart-Dodd, Mead...
...Claire Dodd has the part of the musical comedy star and rival of Miss Chatterton for the affections of Menjou. Others in the cast include George Barbier, Noel Madison, and Henry Kolker...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
...TRUE TO BE GOOD, VILLAGE WOOING, & ON THE ROCKS-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). The three latest plays of the Old Maestro. MOSTLY CANALLERS-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Short stories by an author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...