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...hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does not get along, a precarious job as a style-illustrator, she begins writing him love-letters even before they are introduced. Her resistance to his seduction is merely formal, slightly complicated by the unexplained facts of her married life, the twistiness of her pursued...
Robinson's The Far-off Hills, George Shiel's The New Gossoon, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, will be among the Abbey offerings to be seen this winter in Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver. Denver, Salt Lake City, Boston...
Hero, One of the Northwest's great heroes is husky, hearty Frank Dorbandt. He has rushed serum to many a stricken Eskimo, carried antitoxin to many an ailing Indian, flown many a sick white to far-off hospitals. In 1930 he risked his life in an air search for his onetime flying mate, the late Carl Ben Eielson. In 1932 he made headlines by landing Father Bernard Hubbard inside the smoking volcano of Aniakchak. A longtime fur trader, Hero Dorbandt lately was accused by the Federal Government of smuggling pelts into the U. S. Last month in Seattle...
...Next year, having preformed the stupendous, death-defying leap from Dropped Sophomore on Probation to Junior in good standing, young Grabblestump strolled about with a superb assurance and aplomb, only to dart into concealment as his trained car detected the far-off strains of the old hunting song, 'Who hasn't paid the Big Bad Wolff?' All of his Senior year was focused on one brief...
...moonlight by the side of a well. Their conversation rouses Jacob's ready memories, which the tale follows back to their beginning: his cheating his elder brother Esau out of their father Isaac's blessing; his flight from Esau's wrath to Laban's far-off farmstead; the long years he spent there serving the closefisted Laban that he might marry his daughter Rachel; how Laban in turn cheated him, substituting his other daughter Leah ; how Jacob ended by marrying them both and taking his family and riches back to his own country; the reconciliation with...