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...life in return, flayed him alive, while in a similar situation whites would have exterminated all the Indians in the area. Sallie Reynolds traveled to Colorado and back to Texas, married Bud Matthews, bore him eight children. Her book is filled with good plain Texas names such as Flake Barber and Si Hough, with accounts of droughts, troubles with banks, hard winters, written without heroics
...pleasantly till 8, watching the snow "as Jove," methought, "descending from his Tower" come softly down. Thence up to draw the window but staid looking and caught a few perfect snowflakes on my gown. And Lord! How beautiful they be, Nothing in nature is unbeautiful even unto to the flake. See here a form of a star-which comes from a low cloud, I am told;-see here a tabular form-from high cloud;-see here little gems which man with all his wit could never make as beautiful. I am glad at my heart this day to enter into...
...motor-coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame...
...into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing she had time to get acquainted with her. With her pile made, tycoonship achieved, her daughter polished to a fine finish. Bea thought of retiring, of marrying her assistant. Flake, and having some fun before she got too old. Alas for tycoons, she found that Flake and her daughter were hopelessly in love. Over the end of Bea's career Authoress Hurst draws a brisk veil...
...Cardboard Lover, They Knew What They Wanted. Before every premiere she buys herself an expensive present. "If the play's a flop I'm comforted; if it's a success I'll have celebrated." She likes champagne cocktails, smokes Gold Flake cigarets, says "on the films" instead of "on the screen," and in general has acquired more British than Alabama mannerisms and moral attitudes. This is her first U. S. picture...