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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...STRONGER GOD-Eric Waring -Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambivalent | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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