Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What little action and plot there is in "Biography" is concentrated on Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for...
THIS book has been hailed by the publishers and by newspaper critics as sensational. It is nothing of the sort; and that it has been burdened with superlatives would seem to indicate that publishers have lost none of their old finesse and critics none of their superficiality. The reader, one...
The Vagabond sips his rhum at case. From an office in Time magazine he hears a voice. "Tutrinsically worthless," the voice says, "But you have to have it. It's like a necktie. Just a convention, a caste mark."
There is a rumor that the first draft of a cover for Lampy's Freshman number called for a few alterations. The central figure, one hears, bore a starling resemblance to one James B. Conant.
The welcoming remarks of President Eliot in the Nineties based on admonitions against sleeping with one's windows shut, and his recommendations of bean soup as a nourishing food are of the past. Instead, the new student hears of the case of the undergraduate who made the startling discovery that...