Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BRED IN THE BONE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan...
...Jumblies' habitat are detective stories about human beings. Writers of detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
...House of Commons crusty Tories raised a cheer when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Captain Anthony Eden boomed that "His Majesty's Government would not hesitate, in case of necessity, to take all legitimate measures to protect its vital interests." In Teheran the arrival of Britain's words-via British Wireless News Agency-caused such official consternation that Persian newspapers were forbidden to print them and special couriers were rushed off to Reza Shah Pahlevi who was still in Mazanderan applauding superb Turkoman horseflesh and horsemanship...
Captain Anthony Eden, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons that Great Britain "won't tolerate any interference" by the Persian Government but will endeavor to settle things amicably. In Cabinet circles Reza Shah Pahlevi's action was called second in importance only to the question whether Great Britain would make her Dec. 15 debt payment to the U. S. As every Englishman knows, the oil resources of Anglo-Persian-strategically located between India and Britain-are vital to the Admiralty, must be retained at any cost...
PHILLPOTTS (Eden) A Harvesting...