Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy Bohemians now extant, Waldo Peirce drove an ambulance in France in 1915. traveled in Spain with Ernest Hemingway before The Sun Also Rises, lived and roistered in Madrid, Paris, Tunis. Like most artists who came out of the War with minds touched by mortality and repelled by stuffiness, he stayed in Europe until Depression called him home. His painting first went strongly Zuloaga, then Goya, then strongly Matisse, remains humorous and unruly. In the past few years his favorite subjects have been his twins, Michael and Chamberlain, and their more recent sister, Gabby. He once whiled away a short...
Freed. Writer Ernest C. Booth, 39, from Folsom Prison, after serving 13 years of a 25-year sentence for robbery; in Sacramento, Calif. Attempting, in 1926, to escape from the San Quentin Prison Hospital, Convict Booth fell, broke both legs. During his convalescence he started writing, subsequently turned out a novel, Stealing Through Life, and a short story, Ladies of the Mob, which was printed in American Mercury and made into a cinema. For the next two-and-a-half years Writer Booth will be under parole, the conditions of which are that he must remain in Eldorado County, Calif...
...RETURN OF KAI LUNG-Ernest Bramah-Sheridan House...
...possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately...
Twenty years later Claude has settled down as the wife of a farmer. Husband Ernest, though he leads a peasant's hard life, is no peasant. He dreams only of making enough money to buy back the family chateau, restore its ruins. As farm & family chores rub the bloom off Claude's romance, she takes to her memories for consolation, in spare moments begins to scribble in a copy book. By the time she has joined the past to the present she has filled and destroyed three little books, has lost the desire to fill any more...