Word: fors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTER SWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (for Johann Strauss's score?Die Fledermaus).
Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even...
HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper...
He comes nearest to apologizing for this tour de force in introducing his highly colored literary lithograph of Wilson: "It is not some faded whimsicality that induces me to include Wilson ... in these studies, and to end with him, but the conviction that so alone can the structure be roofed...
With such abstruse connections, William Bolitho ties his subjects to an arbitrary definition of "adventurer" and a theatrical title. Thus also, with a stretched premise, he gives himself an excuse for an eccentric examination of their behavior, scandals, intentions, tragedies.