Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine fettle when he arrived in Manhattan.* With him was his blue-eyed, brunette wife. In his party also was Ronald Tree, M.P., who served him as coach, buffer and expert on U. S. psychology. Ronald Tree is the Chicago-born grandson of Marshall Field. Thus guided, Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit of mine . . . has no political significance whatever. It is not official, my visit: it isn't even semi-official or even a sixteenth-part official...
...study of a foreign lady who is planted in an American life that is Allen to her has been a favorite subject of Rachel Field's. A few years ago the story of the Prussian Lady who had been married to Samuel Hadlock and brought back to spend the rest of her days under the shadow of the blue Mount Desert Hills on lonely Cranberry Island was told in "God's Pocket." Now in "All This and Heaven Too" there is the same fundamental situation although the details are very different, the characters of Henrlette Doluzy-Desportes and the Prussian...
...book is essentially in two parts, the first when Henrlette is living in Paris as governess in the home of the Due du Praslin; the second, entirely different and almost entirely divorced from the first, when she is the wife of Henry Field living in West Springfield and then in New York City. But the whole is well knit. Under the gay lights of Paris, before tragedy has struck her life and with the handsome Due Du Praslin at here side, she sees the actress Rachel. Many years later, as Mrs. Henry Field, she again relieves the past...
...development of character and a picture of New York life in the pre-Civil War era. But there are the same pictures, the same compelling narrative style, the same intuition and insight into the workings of a woman's mind. "All This and Heaven Too" is Rachel Field's outstanding book. Her old readers will read it anyway; those unacquainted with her will find it one of the best novels of the fall...
...There's a big pickup of interest in the game this year," Chester E. Sargent, a major in the field artillery and mentor of both Varsity and Freshman polo, declared yesterday as he sent his men through their third week of drill...