Word: fagots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
...invincible, brown-sinewed Nordic of her salad days. Then weariness crept up her body, dulled the edge of her fiery nerves. She lost, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Miss Wills, champion of the U. S,. was left to face Miss McKane, Champion of Britain. Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court. Miss Mc-Kane and Miss Wills issued from the clubhouse, faced photographers, began to rally. The gallery which filled the stucco stadium was amazed to see a sort of, could it be, well nervousness in the champion...
From "Vienna flies an airline; over the Danube Valley, checkered with green and yellow fields, past the drowsing towers of weedy castles, the Kreuzenstein-a fagot of aged stone pillars, fortressed quadrangles, powder turrets -on into Czecho-Slovakia, energetic Republic blazing" with red roofs, factory chimneys, to the place where Prague with its thousand monuments dreams in a fortressed valley. The cost of this trip by plane is $4-the equivalent of a third-class fare by rail; it occupies 1 hour and 40 minutes; the train takes 8 hours, including an hour at the frontier. No wonder that...