Word: hutchinsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHINING SCABBARD-R. C. Hutchinson -Farrar & Rinehart...
...boiling and bubbling of Author Hutchinson's cauldron never ceases. It begins when lovely little Renée Séverin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre...
Difficult as it is for Renée to understand these monomaniacs, her trials are increased when her husband deserts in an effort to rejoin her. Just why Captain Pierre chooses this difficult way of getting back to France. Author Hutchinson does not make clear, but the trip involves disguising himself as a monk, a corpse, a laborer. By the time Pierre reaches France the Germans are advancing. He joins the army, deserts again when near his home, is arrested, recognized by a brother officer, released, swept up in the retreat, reaches Renée just ahead of the German...
Adding to its already large collection of rare silver, the Fogg Museum has acquired a group of distinguished pieces from English makers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The new pieces have been given as long time loans by Archibald A. Hutchinson who has been one of the chief contributors to the collection. A tea and coffee service has also been presented by Richard Sears which illustrates well the fine types of the late Georgian style...
...Hutchinson, Kans...