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...title, "Immortal Longings," the reviewer fails to find the connection. Walter Overlook has a very natural longing for the lady of his choice, whom he looks upon rather indelicately as "a piece of fallow and unseeded ground that lies steaming and smoking in the sun." There seem to be no other longings...

Author: By R. B. Gowing, | Title: IMMORTAL LONGINGS. By Ben Ames Williams. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, lawyer, author of articles on cruelty to children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Civilized | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...some time this jury lay fallow. The God of Vengeance (in which a brothel keeper hoped to keep his daughter untarnished, only to find her perverted by one of the women in his own establishment) was indicted by the Grand Jury, and the producer and some of the performers fined (1923). Last season William A. Brady voluntarily withdrew his Good Bad Woman after much agitation and a conference with the District Attorney. David Belasco purified his notorious Ladies of the Evening and it was allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Grime | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...organ recital and choral erasing player will be given this afternoon at 5 o'clock in St. John's Memorial Chapel of the Beotscopal Theological School An address by Professor J. A. Muller Q '10 will fallow at 5:30 o'clock. All members of the University are welcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Muller to Speak at Organ Recital | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

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