Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lydia, who elopes with Captain Denny; Jane (Helen Chandler), who goes into a decline when pretty Charles Bingley temporarily deserts her; and Elizabeth (Adrianne Allen), whose sharp tongue and unfashionably candid ways finally ensnare the rich and haughty Darcy (Colin Keith-Johnston). Actress Chandler, the blonde and tremulous wife of...
BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded...
A DIARY WITHOUT DATES-Enid Bagnold-Morrow ($1.50). THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS-Franklin P. Adams-Simon & Schuster ($6). During the War Enid Bagnold ("National Velvet") worked in a hospital in a London suburb, kept a diary, fragments of which were published in 1919. An oblique, suggestive little...
It is more than obvious to anyone who attended the meeting that Mr. Baldwin's speech was by far the outstanding event of the evening. Not only was he received enthusiastically as the featured speaker, but he had the most to say and said it the best. He received twice...
The memoirs of millionaires are usually characterized by a sunny inconsistency that gives the general effect of smugness. If the hero is presented as rising in the world he must also be shown overcoming difficulties, but unless his most serious problems are fully described, the difficulties must always seem minor...