Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain" easily takes first honors among the stories and demonstrates again that young writers are likely to do their best work when they devote themselves earnestly to the understanding and delineation of character rather than to the framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures...
...Texas a bundle of $1,000 in marked bills was handed to State Representative Dale. He accepted it gladly. Half of it was for his friend, State Representative Moore. Forthwith, Mr. Dale was arrested, was expelled from the legislature along with Mr. Moore for accepting a bribe. Speaker Bobbit and ranger officers had hatched the trap. Messrs. Dale and Moore, expectant of reward, had previously promised to kill a bill taxing optometrists...
...matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make love in a falling market may be a hero but he is a damn poor businessman." Into the distress of the last act advances Mother...
...seasoned TIME subscriber for a long while?I enjoyed your quiz tonight. A friend and I tuned in on the second question, and neither of us had heard previous quizzes. However, I recognized the TIME style and offered to wager that TIME had prepared the quiz...
...supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original" on that shore of exotic wreckage and treasure, the Left Bank. That...