Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Don Juan
"By and large his office is the most exacting in the world; there are so many important decisions that must be made by the Pope personally and so many others that must receive his personal O.K. Don't forget that, unlike other rulers, he can not take a vacation but...
"Hey, Ruth, have you seen that awful new wimple she got? In the first place it don't fit her, and ..."
THE humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the...
Don Marquis had not finished the novel before his death. He intended to have Jack break away go to New York, and perhaps to Europe to fight in the World War. When Don Marquis tried to follow Jack from Hazelton to New York, he was beaten. He could not go...