Word: herbst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PITY IS NOT ENOUGH - Josephine Herbst-Harcourt, Brace...
There are various ways of looking at the past: through rose-colored spectacles, through the wrong end of a telescope, or- by an imaginative effort of which few are capable-face to face. Josephine Herbst's method is neither bespectacled nor telescopic, nor is it a personal, Proustian total-recall. Pity Is Not Enough is a medley of autobiographies, a family album of actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst...
Authoress Herbst almost never intrudes her own viewpoint into this carefully watched story; when she does, it is arresting: "Contrary to superstition, the big mass are and have been for some time past more concerned with a way down than...
...Francisco guests convened to witness the marriage of Martha Catching and Dr. Robert Max Herbst. After a long delay it was announced that the wedding was postponed, because Fred Herbst. best man and brother of the groom, and Ann Catching, maid of honor and sister of the bride, had eloped...
...leagues, might find solace and gain in such precepts by joining the House of David baseball team which netted $40,000 one season. Against the Brooklyn Robins last month, the House of David team scored two runs in the last inning after a rally led by bush-bearded Pitcher Herbst, but lost the game...