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...years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways...
Bold and optimistic indeed is the man who sets up shop as a religious journalist. Small in number, his subscribers are choosy, opinionated. Few church magazines are currently given denominational subsidies. Almost no big advertisers buy space in them. (Exception: the homey, nondenominational Christian Herald.) With theological controversy and petty driblets of church news as his stock-in-trade, the religious editor must cut his thoughts to a consistent pattern. And of all denominations the one whose journalists are the most orthodox is the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Its magazines are: The Presbyterian (conservative weekly), The Presbyterian...
...budding social colony at Palm Beach needed a place to risk its money. Bradley's celebrated Beach Club was opened in 1898. In its 36 years, rare is the U. S. Big Name which has not applied for a guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered to operate as a private organization to run a buffet "and such games of amusement as the managers and members may from...
...This is a house. Lowell's great mind conceived them. A cross section, that's the thing. No cliques. A homey spirit without any backslapping. That and knowledge are what Harvard stand for. You should be mighty proud that you will have...
...reputation in the firm); and three much older men: Charles Steele, a venerable lawyer of the early "trust" forming days; Philadelphia's Edward T. Stotesbury, a drummer boy in the Civil War whom the present generation recollects as a socialite yachtsman; and Horatio G. Lloyd who leads a homey life in recent years, has specialized as Welfare Commissioner of Philadelphia and treasurer of Quakerish Haverford at a salary of $1 a year...