Word: groves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DUSK AT THE GROVE?Samuel Rogers ?Little, Brown ($2.50). Books that win fat prizes generally get a big circulation, but not always the acclaim of critics. There should be little complaint, however, with the judges who picked Dusk at The Grove for this year's $10,000 Atlantic Prize Contest. The still waters of this quiet novel run deep. Author Rogers deals sparingly with what his people do, more with what they say, most with what they think. Ranging from 1909 to 1931 in a series of episodes, the story takes for its theme family loyalty in a changing...
When the tale opens, the whole family is on a train, bound for "The Grove," their summer home in Rhode Island. Mark Waring is an Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
Nineteen-nineteen brings a great gathering of the Warings at The Grove. Dicky and Brad are back from the War. Linda, now 21, rejects Thornton, her War fiancé, then weakens and accepts him. Brad reluctantly decides to give up medicine for business. Dicky involves himself with Ellen, a neurotic. Best friend Joel who has always loved Linda looks on helplessly...
...Virgin, the Servites attribute the founding of their order to Mary herself. Dedicated to preaching and meditating on the nature of Christ's Mother, the Servites were established in the U. S. in 1870. Ten years ago in Portland the local fathers set about building a sacred grotto and grove to their patroness. Selecting a site atop a sheet cliff outside the city, they filled it with statuary, including colored tableau groups representing Mary's Seven Sorrows.* They ran an elevator 150 ft. up the cliff so that tourists might pay to view the landscape and an 8˝-ft. bronze...
Smarter than Robert Moses Grove, who depends almost entirely on throwing the ball so fast that batters cannot see it, Yankee Gomez is able to alternate his favorite pitch, a fast ball, with comprehensive curves. He throws a baseball faster and behaves less strangely than the Cardinals' Dizzy Dean, who amuses himself on hot days by lighting a little fire in front of the bench and pretending to be an Indian, who is so popular that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy...