Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Frank Dyson, 71, who, as British Astronomer-Royal in charge of the Greenwich Observatory, was long (1910-33) official keeper of the world's time; on a ship bound for South Africa...
Died. Mrs. Lilian Janet Morley, 73; after long illness; in Baltimore. Widow of Johns Hopkins Professor Frank Morley, she was the mother of three Rhodes Scholars: wambling Litterateur Christopher Darlington (Saturday Review of Literature); Felix Muskett, editor of the Washington Post; Frank Vigor, member of the London publishing house, Faber & Faber...
...BRIDEGROOM GOMETH-Waldo Frank-Doubleday, Doran...
...Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...