Word: epilog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent a year in jail; Alexey left school and decided to become a writer. Meantime their father, with the best will in the world, was running through what was left of his estate. Alexey's reminiscent story ends with the beginning of his first serious love affair. As epilog he tells of the funeral in exile of one of Russia's Grand Dukes. Of the interval that cost him his country and irrevocably removed his youth, he says nothing. Author Bunin, like all good Russian authors, writes with a reverent simplicity which only a natural dignity can carry...
...Epilog. Thursday, Dec. 12, 1799, the weather being very bad, rain, hail and snow falling alternately, Washington rode out to his farm as usual, returned with coat and hair wet by snow, and sat down to dinner without changing his clothes. Next day he showed signs of a cold. His throat was hoarse. Washington, answering remonstrances: "I never take anything for a cold. Let it go as it came...
...Dictator Mussolini loomed as the exponent of a synthesis different from but almost as sweeping as Dictator Stalin's. "It is my deep conviction," he declared, "that this Italian reform will be adopted by all nations having a developed economy. I think the Roosevelt experiment will have this epilog...
...CASE OF MARIE CORWIN-Gregory Dean-Covici, Friede ($2). A New York blackmail racket leads to an unsolved death, until a newly appointed commissioner makes an epilog solution...
...matter beyond all doubt by calling medical examiners. If the charges are substantiated the husband has the right to an annulment, though the church advises him to forgive his wife and live with her. In Chicago last week the marriage machinery of the Greek Orthodox Church ground out an epilog to a primitive tragedy...