Word: francese
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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS (454 pp.) - Frances Trollope - Knopf ($5).
Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags. Or was it a mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil...
Today, every well-read American has heard of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans-second of a long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to...
There'll Be No Changes Made. Poor Frances Trollope took a terrible beating from this nation of officers and gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot...
That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great...