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...spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused of writing in Wardour St. style-defined by Lexicographer H. W. Fowler as "... a selection of oddments calculated to establish (in the eyes of some readers) their claim to be persons of taste & writers of beautiful English...
Though the volume is thus introduced by the name of Bonfils, the general feeling for that name is not duplicated between these boards. Gene Fowler portrays Bonfils, Tammen, and the Post with an amazing cynical sympathy which is one of the chief charms of the story; in consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus...
...exhausted, moreover; all through there is an undercurrent of anecdote which goes far towards expressing the West, and which is interesting for itself. Though Eastern readers may have difficulty in believing everything they see on these pages, the truth of practically all can be substantiated. Finally, Gene Fowler is a writer as high above the usual biography hack as his Timber Line is above the East Boston mud flats; whatever your interests, whatever your previous knowledge of the characters, "Timber Line" will satisfy...
...Russian officer, was Husband No. 1. She divorced him for drunkenness in 1914, married Dr. Julius Fraenkel, a famed New York endocrinologist who died in 1919. Husband No. 2 sent her spirit messages, she said, to marry Alexander Smith Cochran, carpet tycoon, whom she met aboard boat with Harold Fowler McCormick...
...Government 19 Harvard 2 History 1 Mr. Bissell, Sec. A, 1, 20, Conf. Group I Memorial Hall Mr. Coddington, Sec. B, 2, 30, Conf. Group II Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. C, Conf. Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. D, 4, 39, Conf. Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Fowler, Sec. E, 5, 15, Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. F, 16, 27, Conf. Group VI New Lect. Hall Mr. Hoeing, Sec. G, 7, 21, Conf. Group VII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. H, 22, 28, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis...