Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their fathers and mothers, are still of some good in the world. Authoress Hull, in a remarkably feminine but unsentimental novel, shows the home-fire therapy at work, shows to what beneficent ends its Lares & Penates can keep house. When Amy Norton begins to feel that her marriage with Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm...
...decoration as well as illustration, the French cuts are perhaps the best in the sixteenth century. Decorative borders frequently adorn the page and cuts and text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose...
Collision. Olga (June Walker) pretends to be in love with a celebrated musician in order to spur the attentions of her real attachment, Dr. Gestzi (Geoffrey Kerr). Unhappily the musician is reported missing in a train wreck. So Olga feigns insanity, declares that Dr. Gestzi is her missing fiancé. Wise therapist, he humors her with a honeymoon, drugs her when she becomes unmaidenly and finally wakes up to the notion that he is in love with her himself...
...Geoffrey of Monmouth," Professor Maynadier...
...Calcutta Miss Santi Ghose and Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, convicted of fatally filling District Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens full of bullets (TIME, Dec. 28), appeared in court for their sentences. In bright colored saris, with flowers in their hair, they listened unmoved as they were sentenced to transportation for life from Bengal Presidency. Said they lightly: "It is better to die than live in a horse's stable...