Word: glyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hour. Ever since Three Weeks was written, the public has furtively expected bright red adventures from the pen of Elinor Glyn. Again she presents the pink pills of platitude. Somewhere in Russia a pre-War prince corners an English girl in a lonely cabin. She pulls a gun on him and they hold the pose for hours. When she finally faints from exhaustion, he gets cold feet or kind heart and carries her off to Petrograd to buy a license...
...quality" advertising. Many were the readers of the World on June 29 who, beholding the following advertisement in its columns, turned startled eyes to their paper's title-line to discover if their newsdealer had not made some mistake: ¶Just Published! "THE PRICE OF THINGS" by Elinor Glyn, author of "Three Weeks" Here is a novel that will open your eyes! Each succeeding chapter grows more daring. From the Magic Pen of Elinor Glyn flows a throbbing tale of audacious characters, startling incidents, sensational situations, daring scenes, thrill after thrill! So realistic is the charm, the fire...
...sense of the theatric saves the play from the Elinor Glyn class. But it is like spoiling a good bedroom farce with too much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...young Earl of Jersey, and ever since the family has had a dominant interest in Child & Co. The eighth Earl of Jersey, who died last December, was its senior partner, and in accordance with his will the venerable institution will be absorbed by the larger private bank of Glyn, Mills...
...last balance sheet of Child & Co. showed deposits of about ?3,000,000. The deposits of Glyn, Mills & Co. after the consolidation will exceed...