Word: harnessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1895, when the Poughkeepsie Regatta started, the winner of the Har-vard-Yale race was considered the best crew in the U. S. As the athletic import of the race declined, its social prestige increased. Last week more than half of the commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert...
ANITRA'S DANCE-Fannie Hurst-Har-per ($2.50). "The world wagged. Sophie wagged. Waxman wagged. How furiously it all wagged and wagged." With such arrestingly waggish words Author Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) this week slapped down the first course of her latest table d'hote, Anitra's Dance. Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will. His nose immediately told him that here was another full-fleshed Hurstwurst, stuffed to bursting point, garnished with garlic, well-lapped in rich gravy. Critics...
...NINE TAILORS-Dorothy L. Sayers -Har court, Brace ($2). An emergency campanologist, and then most trusted detective, Lord Peter Wimsey assumes the protectorate of Fenchurch and its Rector. Against a background of bell-clanging is first the jewel robbery of 20 years ago; then a murdered man's body in a newly opened grave. Connecting the two, Wimsey solves the crime...
ROCKWELLKENTIANA-Rockwell Kent- Har court, Brace ($3.75). "Few words and many pictures" by the most popular U. S. artist-illustrator...
...Udklip Du sendte mig passer ikke altsammen. Kirken er kun en Kryslitkirke, saa den er hverken ny eller smuk og Kroen ligger heller ikke lige overfor, men et godt Stykke derfra, men ellers er det rigtigt. Det er en af vore gode Bekendte Praesten som har Kroen, han var gift med en Søster til Murmenster Andersens Kone. Jeg tror nok det har kostet ham en Masse Penge...