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...selling the glebe lands thereof to an enterprising Polish neighbor, Cooper is rather shocked to find that they are to form part of the dowry which will place Manya (Anna Sten) forever in the boorishly legitimate embraces of Patigorski, a young Pole of the vicinage. He allows his wife to return to the giddy whirl alone, and remains to watch Manya trip across the hill each morning with the milk. Winter comes...
...killing it, and other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper of his study at Easton Glebe bore the garter and Honi soit qui mal y pense. That states his case...
Birthday. Herbert George Wells, author (Mr. Britling Sees it Through, A Short History of the World, Men Like Gods); at Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England...
Ezra Pound: "Personae, Exultations, Canzoni, Ripostes," 2 vols., London (1913), Elkin Mathew; "Des Imagistes"--Published by Albert and Charles Boni as a number of the "Glebe", a publication edited by Alfred Kreymborg (1914); "Des Imagistes"--Published by the Poetry Bookshop, London (1914); "Personal" London (1916), Elkin Mathew; "Lustra," Privato Edition; New York (1917); "Umbra; The early poems of Ezra Pound," London (1920); "Physique de I'Amour," by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, London (1921); 'Sixteen Cantos of Ezra Pound," Paris (1926), Three Mountains Press. "Oatholic Anthology," selected and edited by Ezra Pound, London (1915), Elkin Mathew...
...last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...